食力

Chinese

		eat; food; to feed eat; food; to feed; animal feed	power; force; strength
trad. (食力)		食	力
simp. #(食力)		食	力
alternative forms		噍力 Min Nan 吃力 Min Nan

Pronunciation 1

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): shílì

  (Zhuyin): ㄕˊ ㄌㄧˋ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): sik⁶ lik⁶
• Hakka (Changting, Changting Pinyin): shï⁵ di⁵
• Southern Min (Hokkien, POJ): si̍t-la̍t / chia̍h-la̍t

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)
    • Hanyu Pinyin: shílì
    • Zhuyin: ㄕˊ ㄌㄧˋ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: shíhlì
    • Wade–Giles: shih²-li⁴
    • Yale: shŕ-lì
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: shyrlih
    • Palladius: шили (šili)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /ʂʐ̩³⁵ li⁵¹/
    • Homophones:

      edit edit 實例 / 实例 實力 / 实力

• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)⁺
    • Jyutping: sik⁶ lik⁶
    • Yale: sihk lihk
    • Cantonese Pinyin: sik⁹ lik⁹
    • Guangdong Romanization: xig⁶ lig⁶
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /sɪk̚² lɪk̚²/
• Hakka
  • (Changting)
    • Changting Pinyin: shï⁵ di⁵
    • Sinological IPA: /ʃʐ̩²¹ ti²¹/
• Southern Min
  • (Hokkien: Xiamen)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: si̍t-la̍t
    • Tâi-lô: si̍t-la̍t
    • Phofsit Daibuun: sidlat
    • Sinological IPA (Xiamen): /sit̚⁴⁻³² lat̚⁴/
  • (Hokkien: General Taiwanese)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: chia̍h-la̍t
    • Tâi-lô: tsia̍h-la̍t
    • Phofsit Daibuun: ciaqlat
    • Sinological IPA (Kaohsiung): /t͡sia(ʔ)⁴⁻²¹ lat̚⁴/
    • Sinological IPA (Taipei): /t͡sia(ʔ)⁴⁻¹¹ lat̚⁴/

Note:

• si̍t-la̍t - “to live off labor”;
• chia̍h-la̍t - “to sustain physical pressure”.

Verb

食力

1. (literary or Xiamen Hokkien) to live off labor
2. (literary) to live off taxes
3. (Cantonese and Taiwanese Hokkien) to sustain physical pressure or impact

   • 然而拖鞋不咬地容易跣，所以煞掣時未必食力，隨時出事 [Cantonese, trad.]
     然而拖鞋不咬地容易跣，所以煞掣时未必食力，随时出事 [Cantonese, simp.]

     From: 2017 August 4, 劉永明 and 翁鈺輝, 釀4車相撞17傷　人字拖司機被捕

     jin⁴ ji⁴ to¹ haai^4-2 bat¹ ngaau⁵ dei⁶ jung⁴ ji⁶ sin³, so² ji⁵ saat³ zai³ si⁴ mei⁶ bit¹ sik⁶ lik⁶, ceoi⁴ si⁴ ceot¹ si⁶ [Jyutping]

     but slippers don't grip onto the floor, making it easy to slip, so when braking, it may not be able to sustain the impact and an accident may happen any time

4. (Changting Hakka) to be responsive and effective under force (of tools)

Noun

食力

1. (literary) commoner; laborer
2. (literary) food and manpower
3. (literary) energy from food

Pronunciation 2

• Hakka (Changting, Changting Pinyin): shï⁵ di⁵
• Southern Min (Hokkien, POJ): chia̍h-la̍t / chǎ-la̍t

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• Hakka
  • (Changting)
    • Changting Pinyin: shï⁵ di⁵
    • Sinological IPA: /ʃʐ̩²¹ ti²¹/
• Southern Min
  • (Hokkien: Xiamen, Quanzhou, Zhangzhou, General Taiwanese, Philippines, Singapore)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: chia̍h-la̍t
    • Tâi-lô: tsia̍h-la̍t
    • Phofsit Daibuun: ciaqlat
    • Sinological IPA (Quanzhou, Philippines): /t͡sia(ʔ)²⁴⁻² lat̚²⁴/
    • Sinological IPA (Zhangzhou): /t͡sia(ʔ)¹²¹⁻²¹ lat̚¹²¹/
    • Sinological IPA (Taipei): /t͡sia(ʔ)⁴⁻¹¹ lat̚⁴/
    • Sinological IPA (Singapore): /t͡sia(ʔ)⁴³⁻²¹ lat̚⁴³/
    • Sinological IPA (Xiamen, Kaohsiung): /t͡sia(ʔ)⁴⁻²¹ lat̚⁴/
  • (Hokkien: Longyan)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: chǎ-la̍t
    • Tâi-lô: tsǎ-la̍t
    • Sinological IPA (Longyan): /t͡sa⁵³⁻¹¹ lat̚³²/

Verb

食力

1. (Hokkien, Puxian Min, Changting Hakka) to involve much effort; to be a strain; to be exhausting

Synonyms

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• 了力 (Min Nan)
• 吃力 (chīlì)
• 吃勁 / 吃劲 (chījìn)
• 夠力 / 够力 (Hokkien)
• 硬斗 (Hokkien)
• 硬繚 / 硬缭 (Hokkien)
• 著力 / 着力 (zhuólì)
• 費力 / 费力 (fèilì)
• 費勁 / 费劲 (fèijìn) (colloquial)
• 食工 (Xiamen Hokkien, Zhangzhou Hokkien)

Derived terms

• 食力無好看 / 食力无好看
• 食力牛

Adverb

食力

1. (Hokkien) seriously; severely

Descendants

• → English: jialat, chialat
• → Indonesian: cialat

References

• 周存 [Zhōu, Cún], editor (2023), “食力”, in 长汀话词典 CHANGTINGHUA CIDIAN [Dictionary of Changting Dialect] (overall work in Hakka and Mandarin), Guangzhou: 世界图书出版有限公司 [World Book Publishing Co., Ltd.], →ISBN, page 584.