食風

Chinese

		eat; food; to feed eat; food; to feed; animal feed	wind; news; style wind; news; style; custom; manner
trad. (食風)		食	風
simp. (食风)		食	风
Literally: “to eat wind”.

Etymology

Calque of Malay makan angin (“to eat wind”) for the second sense.

Pronunciation

Cantonese (Jyutping): sik⁶ fung¹
Min Nan
(Hokkien, POJ): chia̍h-hong / chia̍h-hoang

(Teochew, Peng'im): ziah⁸ huang¹

Cantonese
- (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou)⁺
  - Jyutping: sik⁶ fung¹
  - Yale: sihk fūng
  - Cantonese Pinyin: sik⁹ fung¹
  - Guangdong Romanization: xig⁶ fung¹
  - Sinological IPA ^(key): /sɪk̚² fʊŋ⁵⁵/
Min Nan
- (Hokkien: Xiamen, Zhangzhou, General Taiwanese, Singapore, Penang)
  - Pe̍h-ōe-jī: chia̍h-hong
  - Tâi-lô: tsia̍h-hong
  - Phofsit Daibuun: ciaqhofng
  - IPA (Xiamen, Kaohsiung): /t͡ɕia(ʔ)⁴⁻²¹ hɔŋ⁴⁴/
  - IPA (Singapore): /t͡ɕia(ʔ)⁴³⁻²¹ hɔŋ⁴⁴/
  - IPA (Penang): /t͡ɕia(ʔ)⁴⁻³ hɔŋ³³/
  - IPA (Zhangzhou): /t͡ɕia(ʔ)¹²¹⁻²¹ hɔŋ⁴⁴/
  - IPA (Taipei): /t͡ɕia(ʔ)⁴⁻¹¹ hɔŋ⁴⁴/
- (Hokkien: Quanzhou)
  - Pe̍h-ōe-jī: chia̍h-hoang
  - Tâi-lô: tsia̍h-huang
  - Phofsit Daibuun: ciaqhoafng
  - IPA (Quanzhou): /t͡ɕia(ʔ)²⁴⁻² huaŋ³³/
- (Teochew)
  - Peng'im: ziah⁸ huang¹
  - Pe̍h-ōe-jī-like: tsia̍h huang
  - Sinological IPA ^(key): /t͡siaʔ⁴⁻² huaŋ³³/

Verb

食⫽風 (verb-object)

(Mainland China and Taiwanese Hokkien) to attract wind; to invite the wind (of a place)
(Cantonese, Hakka, Hokkien and Teochew in Malaysia and Singapore) to travel for fun; to go travelling; to go on holiday; to generally to live in luxury
(Hainanese) to get a breath of fresh air

Synonyms

(to invite the wind): 招風／招风 (zhāofēng)
(to travel for fun): 兜風／兜风 (dōufēng), 吃風／吃风 (chīfēng)

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