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食言. In DICTIOUS you will not only get to know all the dictionary meanings for the word
食言, but we will also tell you about its etymology, its characteristics and you will know how to say
食言 in singular and plural. Everything you need to know about the word
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Chinese
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eat; food; to feed eat; food; to feed; animal feed |
to speak; to say; talk to speak; to say; talk; word |
| trad. (食言)
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食
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言
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| simp. #(食言)
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食
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言
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Pronunciation
| Baxter–Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
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| Character
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食
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言
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| Reading #
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1/2
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3/4
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Modern
Beijing
(Pinyin)
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shí
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yán
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Middle
Chinese
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‹ zyik ›
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‹ ngjon ›
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Old
Chinese
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/*mə-lək/
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/*ŋa/
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| English
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eat
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speak; speech
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Notes for Old Chinese notations in the Baxter–Sagart system:
* Parentheses "()" indicate uncertain presence;
* Square brackets "" indicate uncertain identity, e.g. * as coda may in fact be *-t or *-p;
* Angle brackets "<>" indicate infix;
* Hyphen "-" indicates morpheme boundary;
* Period "." indicates syllable boundary.
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| Zhengzhang system (2003)
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| Character
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食
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言
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| Reading #
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2/2
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1/1
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| No.
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11477
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14271
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Phonetic
component
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食
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言
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Rime
group
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職
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元
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Rime
subdivision
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0
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1
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Corresponding
MC rime
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言
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Old
Chinese
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/*ɦljɯɡ/
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/*ŋan/
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Verb
食言
- to go back on one's word; to break one's promise
爾無不信，朕不食言。
尔无不信，朕不食言。 - From: The Book of Documents, circa 4th – 3rd century BCE
- Ěr wú bù xìn, zhèn bù shíyán.
- (please add an English translation of this usage example)
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