食sik6字zi6

English

1. playing with words; paronomasia; pun
2. to make a homophonic pun; to play with words homophonically; literally: to eat words

粵語 — Cantonese

1. 一種運用諧音達到語帶雙關嘅修辭手法，用嚟吸引人注意同加深印象；通常會用喺宣傳口號、標題或者歇後語

Examples

• 個戲名其實有玩食字，要用廣東話讀出嚟先至明㗎！

  The movie title is actually a pun, and you need to read it out in Cantonese in order to understand it!

• TVB啲劇名成日玩食字，好似《金枝慾孽》、《畢打自己人》、《宮心計》咁。

  TVB always makes use of word play in its TV drama names, such as "War And Beauty" (puns with "be born in the purple") , "Off Pedder" (Pedder puns with "not to beat"), "Beyond the Realm of Conscience" (puns with "adept at scheming").