食雞
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Chinese
eat; food; to feed eat; food; to feed; animal feed |
fowl; chicken | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| trad. (食雞/食鷄) | 食 | 雞/鷄 | |
| simp. (食鸡) | 食 | 鸡 | |
Etymology
Senses related to PlayerUnknown's Battlegrounds are a calque of Mandarin 吃雞 / 吃鸡 (chījī).
Pronunciation
- Cantonese (Jyutping): sik6 gai1
- Eastern Min (BUC): siăh→siĕh-*giĕ
- Cantonese
- (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)+
- Jyutping: sik6 gai1
- Yale: sihk gāi
- Cantonese Pinyin: sik9 gai1
- Guangdong Romanization: xig6 gei1
- Sinological IPA (key): /sɪk̚² kɐi̯⁵⁵/
- (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)+
- Eastern Min
- (Fuzhou)
- Bàng-uâ-cê: siăh→siĕh-*giĕ
- Sinological IPA (key): /sieʔ⁵⁻⁵⁵ kie⁵⁵/
- (Fuzhou)
Verb
食⫽雞 (verb-object) (intransitive)
- (Cantonese, Eastern Min) to visit a prostitute
- (Cantonese, neologism, slang) to win in a game of PlayerUnknown's Battlegrounds or other similar video games
- (Cantonese, neologism, slang) to play PlayerUnknown's Battlegrounds or other similar video games
- Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see 食, 雞 / 鸡 (jī).
Synonyms
- (to visit a prostitute):
Dialectal synonyms of 嫖娼 (“to visit prostitutes”)
Noun
食雞
- (Cantonese, neologism, nickname) PlayerUnknown's Battlegrounds or other similar video games
Synonyms
Related terms
- Japanese: ドン勝 (don-katsu)