Cantonese · Jyutping
Mandarin · Pinyin
- liáng
English
- food, grain, provisions
- grain
- (noun) salary
- food
- provisions
- agricultural tax paid in grain
- food
- grain
- pay, wage
粵語
- 糧食；泛指食物
- 五穀類主食
- 借指人工，以前直接用米糧去支付薪金，後一直沿用
Variants
Words containing 糧
- 糧食loeng4 sik6
foodstuff
- 出糧ceot1 loeng4
(dialect) to pay salary
- 長糧coeng4 loeng4
pension
- 軍糧gwan1 loeng4
army provisions
- 食糧sik6 loeng4
food cereals
- 乾糧gon1 loeng4
rations (to take on expedition)
- 狗糧gau2 loeng4
dog food
- 糧單loeng4 daan1
salary statement; pay slip
- 雙糧soeng1 loeng4
double-pay; double- salary
- 糧票loeng4 piu3
coupons for food or grain used in a PRC economic program c. 1955-1993
- 貓糧maau1 loeng4
cat food
- 餘糧jyu4 loeng4
surplus grain
- 咬糧ngaau5 loeng4
to live on a retirement service pension after retiring from a government position
- 雜糧zaap6 loeng4
grain crops other than rice and wheat
- 糧倉loeng4 cong1
granary
- 糧期loeng4 kei4
payday
- 產糧caan2 loeng4
to grow crops
- 公糧gung1 loeng4
grain collected by the government as tax
- 糧草loeng4 cou2
army provisions
- 納糧naap6 loeng4
to pay taxes in kind (rice, cloth etc)
- 糧庫loeng4 fu3
grain depot
- 拖糧to1 loeng4
to owe wage; back pay
- 糧農loeng4 nung4
food and agriculture
- 糧尾loeng4 mei5
period of time where one's salary is nearly spent; In Hong Kong, it usually refers to the certain days in a month; literally: wage end