食力

Chinese

		eat; food; to feed eat; food; to feed; animal feed	power; force; strength
trad. (食力)		食	力
simp. #(食力)		食	力
alternative forms		噍力 Min Nan 吃力 Min Nan

Pronunciation 1

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): shílì

  (Zhuyin): ㄕˊ ㄌㄧˋ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): sik⁶ lik⁶
• Southern Min (Hokkien, POJ): si̍t-la̍t / chia̍h-la̍t

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)
    • Hanyu Pinyin: shílì
    • Zhuyin: ㄕˊ ㄌㄧˋ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: shíhlì
    • Wade–Giles: shih²-li⁴
    • Yale: shŕ-lì
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: shyrlih
    • Palladius: шили (šili)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /ʂʐ̩³⁵ li⁵¹/
    • Homophones:

      [Show/Hide]
      edit edit 實例／实例 實力／实力

• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)⁺
    • Jyutping: sik⁶ lik⁶
    • Yale: sihk lihk
    • Cantonese Pinyin: sik⁹ lik⁹
    • Guangdong Romanization: xig⁶ lig⁶
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /sɪk̚² lɪk̚²/
• Southern Min
  • (Hokkien: Xiamen)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: si̍t-la̍t
    • Tâi-lô: si̍t-la̍t
    • Phofsit Daibuun: sidlat
    • IPA (Xiamen): /sit̚⁴⁻³² lat̚⁴/
  • (Hokkien: General Taiwanese)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: chia̍h-la̍t
    • Tâi-lô: tsia̍h-la̍t
    • Phofsit Daibuun: ciaqlat
    • IPA (Kaohsiung): /t͡sia(ʔ)⁴⁻²¹ lat̚⁴/
    • IPA (Taipei): /t͡sia(ʔ)⁴⁻¹¹ lat̚⁴/

Note: si̍t-la̍t - “to live off labour”.

Verb

食力

1. (literary or Southern Min) to live off labour
2. (literary) to live off taxes
3. (Cantonese) to sustain physical pressure or impact

   • 然而拖鞋不咬地容易跣，所以煞掣時未必食力，隨時出事 [Cantonese, trad.]
     然而拖鞋不咬地容易跣，所以煞掣时未必食力，随时出事 [Cantonese, simp.]

     From: 2017 August 4, 劉永明 and 翁鈺輝, 釀4車相撞17傷　人字拖司機被捕

     jin⁴ ji⁴ to¹ haai^4-2 bat¹ ngaau⁵ dei⁶ jung⁴ ji⁶ sin³, so² ji⁵ saat³ zai³ si⁴ mei⁶ bit¹ sik⁶ lik⁶, ceoi⁴ si⁴ ceot¹ si⁶ [Jyutping]

     but slippers don't grip onto the floor, making it easy to slip, so when braking, it may not be able to sustain the impact and an accident may happen any time

Noun

食力

1. (literary) commoner; labourer
2. (literary) food and manpower
3. (literary) energy from food

Pronunciation 2

• Southern Min (Hokkien, POJ): chia̍h-la̍t / chǎ-la̍t

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• Southern Min
  • (Hokkien: Xiamen, Quanzhou, Zhangzhou, General Taiwanese)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: chia̍h-la̍t
    • Tâi-lô: tsia̍h-la̍t
    • Phofsit Daibuun: ciaqlat
    • IPA (Taipei): /t͡sia(ʔ)⁴⁻¹¹ lat̚⁴/
    • IPA (Quanzhou): /t͡sia(ʔ)²⁴⁻² lat̚²⁴/
    • IPA (Zhangzhou): /t͡sia(ʔ)¹²¹⁻²¹ lat̚¹²¹/
    • IPA (Xiamen, Kaohsiung): /t͡sia(ʔ)⁴⁻²¹ lat̚⁴/
  • (Hokkien: Longyan)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: chǎ-la̍t
    • Tâi-lô: tsǎ-la̍t
    • IPA (Longyan): /t͡sa⁵³⁻¹¹ lat̚³²/

Verb

食力

1. (Hokkien, Puxian Min) to involve much effort; to be a strain; to be exhausting

Synonyms

• 了力 (Min Nan)
• 吃力 (chīlì)
• 吃勁／吃劲 (chījìn)
• 夠力／够力 (Hokkien)
• 硬斗 (Hokkien)
• 硬繚／硬缭 (Hokkien)
• 著力／着力 (zhuólì)
• 費力／费力 (fèilì)
• 費勁／费劲 (fèijìn) (colloquial)
• 食工 (Xiamen Hokkien, Zhangzhou Hokkien)

 

Derived terms

• 食力無好看／食力无好看

 

Adverb

食力

1. (Hokkien) seriously; severely

Descendants

• → English: jialat, chialat
• → Indonesian: cialat