糊嘴

Chinese

		paste; cream; muddled paste; cream; muddled; scorched	mouth
trad. (糊嘴)		糊	嘴
simp. #(糊嘴)		糊	嘴

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): húzuǐ

  (Zhuyin): ㄏㄨˊ ㄗㄨㄟˇ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): wu⁴ zeoi²

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: húzuǐ
    • Zhuyin: ㄏㄨˊ ㄗㄨㄟˇ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: húzuěi
    • Wade–Giles: hu²-tsui³
    • Yale: hú-dzwěi
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: hwutzoei
    • Palladius: хуцзуй (xuczuj)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /xu³⁵ t͡su̯eɪ̯²¹⁴⁻²¹⁽⁴⁾/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)⁺
    • Jyutping: wu⁴ zeoi²
    • Yale: wùh jéui
    • Cantonese Pinyin: wu⁴ dzoey²
    • Guangdong Romanization: wu⁴ zêu²
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /wuː²¹ t͡sɵy̯³⁵/

Verb

糊嘴

1. (dated) to scrape a meagre living

Synonyms

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• 做食 (Puxian Min)
• 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)
• 營生 / 营生 (yíngshēng)
• 糊口 (húkǒu)
• 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)