營生

See also: 营生

Chinese

		army; to deal in; to trade army; to deal in; to trade; to operate; to run; camp; nourishment; to manage	to be born; to give birth; life to be born; to give birth; life; to grow; student; raw
trad. (營生)		營	生
simp. (营生)		营	生

Pronunciation 1

Mandarin
(Pinyin): yíngshēng

(Zhuyin): ㄧㄥˊ ㄕㄥ
Cantonese (Jyutping): jing⁴ sang¹

Mandarin
- (Standard Chinese)⁺
  - Hanyu Pinyin: yíngshēng
  - Zhuyin: ㄧㄥˊ ㄕㄥ
  - Tongyong Pinyin: yíngsheng
  - Wade–Giles: ying²-shêng¹
  - Yale: yíng-shēng
  - Gwoyeu Romatzyh: yngsheng
  - Palladius: иншэн (inšɛn)
  - Sinological IPA ^(key): /iŋ³⁵ ʂɤŋ⁵⁵/
Cantonese
- (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)⁺
  - Jyutping: jing⁴ sang¹
  - Yale: yìhng sāng
  - Cantonese Pinyin: jing⁴ sang¹
  - Guangdong Romanization: ying⁴ seng¹
  - Sinological IPA ^(key): /jɪŋ²¹ sɐŋ⁵⁵/

Verb

營生

to make a living; to earn a living

Synonyms

尋食／寻食 (Hakka)
就食 (jiùshí) (literary)
度三頓／度三顿 (Xiamen Hokkien, with difficulty, Zhangzhou Hokkien, with difficulty)
度喙飽／度喙饱 (Hokkien, with difficulty)
度食 (Hokkien)
搵食／揾食 (wan² sik⁶) (Cantonese)
混飯吃／混饭吃 (hùnfànchī) (colloquial)
糊口 (húkǒu)
糊嘴 (húzuǐ) (dated)
討生活／讨生活 (tǎoshēnghuó)
討食／讨食
謀生／谋生 (móushēng)
賺食／赚食 (Hakka, Xiamen Hokkien, Zhangzhou Hokkien)
趁食 (Min)
過活／过活 (guòhuó)

Pronunciation 2

Mandarin
(Pinyin): yíngshēng

(Zhuyin): ㄧㄥˊ ㄕㄥ
Cantonese (Jyutping): jing⁴ sang¹

Mandarin
- (Standard Chinese)⁺
  - Hanyu Pinyin: yíngshēng → yíngsheng (toneless final syllable variant)
  - Zhuyin: ㄧㄥˊ ㄕㄥ → ㄧㄥˊ ˙ㄕㄥ (toneless final syllable variant)
  - Tongyong Pinyin: yíngshe̊ng
  - Wade–Giles: ying²-shêng⁵
  - Yale: yíng-sheng
  - Gwoyeu Romatzyh: yng.sheng
  - Palladius: иншэн (inšɛn)
  - Sinological IPA ^(key): /iŋ³⁵ ʂɤŋ⁵⁵/ → /iŋ³⁵ ʂɤŋ³/
- (Standard Chinese, erhua-ed)⁺
  - Hanyu Pinyin: yíngshēngr
  - Zhuyin: ㄧㄥˊ ㄕㄥㄦ
  - Tongyong Pinyin: yíngshengr
  - Wade–Giles: ying²-shêng¹-ʼrh
  - Yale: yíng-shēngr
  - Gwoyeu Romatzyh: yngshengl
  - Palladius: иншэнр (inšɛnr)
  - Sinological IPA ^(key): /iŋ³⁵ ʂɤ̃ɻ⁵⁵/
Cantonese
- (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)⁺
  - Jyutping: jing⁴ sang¹
  - Yale: yìhng sāng
  - Cantonese Pinyin: jing⁴ sang¹
  - Guangdong Romanization: ying⁴ seng¹
  - Sinological IPA ^(key): /jɪŋ²¹ sɐŋ⁵⁵/

Noun

營生

(dialectal) job

Synonyms

Dialectal synonyms of 職業 (“job; occupation; profession”) [map]

Variety	Location	Words edit
Classical Chinese		職, 業
Formal (Written Standard Chinese)		職業, 工作
Mandarin	Taiwan	工作
Mandarin	Singapore	工, 工作
Cantonese	Guangzhou	工
	Hong Kong	工
	Singapore (Guangfu)	工
Hakka	Miaoli (N. Sixian)	頭路
	Pingtung (Neipu; S. Sixian)	頭路
	Hsinchu County (Zhudong; Hailu)	頭路
	Taichung (Dongshi; Dabu)	頭路
	Hsinchu County (Qionglin; Raoping)	頭路
	Yunlin (Lunbei; Zhao'an)	頭路
Southern Min	Xiamen	頭路, 工課, 穡路
	Quanzhou	頭路, 工課, 穡路
	Jinjiang	頭路
	Zhangzhou	頭路, 工課, 穡路
	Taipei	頭路
	New Taipei (Sanxia)	頭路, 職業
	Kaohsiung	工課, 頭路, 穡頭, 職業
	Yilan	工課, 頭路, 職業
	Changhua (Lukang)	工課, 頭路, 職業
	Taichung	頭路, 工課, 穡頭
	Tainan	工課, 頭路, 穡頭, 職業
	Hsinchu	頭路, 工課
	Kinmen	頭路, 工課
	Penghu (Magong)	工課
	Penang (Hokkien)	工課, 工
	Singapore (Hokkien)	工, 頭路, 工課
	Manila (Hokkien)	頭路
	Jieyang	工課
	Singapore (Teochew)	工, 工課
	Singapore (Hainanese)	工
Wu	Shanghai	工作, 生活, 生意, 行當, 飯碗 figuratively, 飯碗頭 figuratively
	Shanghai (Chongming)	生活, 營生
	Suzhou	行當
	Danyang	生活
	Ningbo	生活, 行當
	Wenzhou	行當
	Jinhua	行當, 事幹, 生活
Note	GT - General Taiwanese (no specific region identified)

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