food nut

Chinese

Alternative forms

• food nu

Etymology

Clipping of English food and nutrition.

Pronunciation

• Cantonese (Jyutping): fut¹ niu⁶

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• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)⁺
    • Jyutping: fut¹ niu⁶
    • Yale: fūt niuh
    • Cantonese Pinyin: fut⁷ niu⁶
    • Guangdong Romanization: fud¹ niu⁶
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /fuːt̚⁵ niːu̯²²/

Noun

food nut

1. (Hong Kong Cantonese, university slang) food and nutrition science (as a subject)