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餐搵餐食
  caan1 wan2 caan1 sik6   jyutping
living from hand to mouth
[literal] meal found, meal eaten
[synonym]

Idiom

Level: 3
This term is used in Cantonese, not Mandarin/Standard written Chinese.
餐搵餐食

This word has been viewed 1536 times since 30th Oct 2012, was added by bybell on 28th May 2007 22:08 and last edited on 12th Feb 2017 09:58
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Characters in this word:

 caan1  -  meal; dine
 wan2 wan3  -  search; find; use
 caan1  -  meal; dine
 sik6 zi6  -  eat; food

1 compounds containing this word:

餐搵餐食餐餐清 - completely spend what one earns, "living paycheck to paycheck"
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