吃公粮

to be on the government payroll

Characters and words in 吃公粮

to eat / to consume / to eat at (a cafeteria etc) / to eradicate / to destroy / to absorb / to suffer / to stammer (Taiwan pr. for this sense is [ji2])

吃 = 乞 + 口 : Charlie Chaplin and the beggar are floating in front of the space station. Charlie Chaplin is very hungry and begs the beggar to hand over the beggar's mandarin.

吃

喫

chi̅ = ch + Ø1

variant of 吃[chi1]

吃 = 乞 + 口 : Charlie Chaplin and the beggar are floating in front of the space station. Charlie Chaplin is very hungry and begs the beggar to hand over the beggar's mandarin.

公

go̅ng = gu + (e)ng1

public / collectively owned / common / international (e.g. high seas, metric system, calendar) / make public / fair / just / Duke, highest of five orders of nobility 五等爵位[wu3 deng3 jue2 wei4] / honorable (gentlemen) / father-in-law / male (animal)

公 = 八 + 厶 : Mnemonic symbol from 公交车: a (magic) bus.

公 = 八 + 厶 : Gitta Giraffe has to deliver 100 eight balls to engine driving a magic bus. She is driving in front of the engine and because the load is so heavy, she is driving very slowly. Additionally, she tried to decrease the wind resistance by installing a large fake nose at the front of the bus.

公

go̅ng

粮

糧

liáng

grain collected by the government as tax

粮

糧

liáng = li + ang2

grain / food / provisions / agricultural tax paid in grain

粮 = 米 + 良 : Li Qingzhao (li) delivered a sack of rice (米) to the anglepod's kitchen (ang2). They were very thankful since they were out of food, so they gave Li Qingzhao a thank you card (良) and the first dish of the new food (粮) they produced.

Words with 吃公粮

吃公粮 is not used as a component in another word.

Sentences with 吃公粮

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