important; vital; to want important; vital; to want; to be going to; must; demand; ask; request; coerce |
food; cuisine; cooked rice food; cuisine; cooked rice; meal | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| trad. (要飯) | 要 | 飯 | |
| simp. (要饭) | 要 | 饭 | |
| 要犯 要飯／要饭 |
要⫽飯 (verb-object)
| Variety | Location | Words |
|---|---|---|
| Classical Chinese | 乞食 | |
| Formal (Written Standard Chinese) | 討飯, 要飯 | |
| Jiaoliao Mandarin | Yantai (Muping) | 要飯 |
| Central Plains Mandarin | Xi'an | 要飯 |
| Southwestern Mandarin | Wuhan | 討米 |
| Cantonese | Guangzhou | 乞食 |
| Hong Kong | 乞食 | |
| Taishan | 乞米 | |
| Kaiping (Chikan) | 乞米 | |
| Gan | Nanchang | 討飯 |
| Hakka | Meixian | 討食 |
| Miaoli (N. Sixian) | 乞食, 討食 | |
| Pingtung (Neipu; S. Sixian) | 乞食, 討食 | |
| Hsinchu County (Zhudong; Hailu) | 乞食, 討食 | |
| Taichung (Dongshi; Dabu) | 乞食, 討食 | |
| Hsinchu County (Qionglin; Raoping) | 乞食, 討食 | |
| Yunlin (Lunbei; Zhao'an) | 乞食, 討食 | |
| Huizhou | Jixi | 討飯 |
| Eastern Min | Fuzhou | 討食 |
| Southern Min | Xiamen | 討食 |
| Quanzhou | 討食 | |
| Zhangzhou | 討食 | |
| Jieyang | 討食 | |
| Leizhou | 討米 | |
| Wu | Shanghai | 討飯 |
| Wenzhou | 討飯, 搝米 | |
| Jinhua | 討飯 | |
| Xiang | Changsha | 討米 |
| Loudi | 討米 | |