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food / CL: 種|种
HSK 2
foodstuff; food; provisions / CL: 種|种
HSK 3
dining hall; cafeteria / CL: 個|个, 間|间
HSK 4
appetite
HSK 6
board and lodging / room and board
HSK 7-9
to eat; to consume / edible
HSK 7-9
charactercopystroke orderAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *食* | 食* | *食
to eat / food / animal feed / eclipse
charactercopystroke orderAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *食* | 食* | *食
to feed (a person or animal)
food is more precious than jade and firewood more expensive than cassia (idiom) / the cost of living is very high
(Singapore, Malaysia, Hong Kong) drinking water
man-eating (beast) / to eat people / fig. to oppress the people
cookbook / recipe / diet / CL: , 個|个
lit. to eat but finely ground grain and finely chopped meat (idiom, from Analects) / fig. to be fastidious about one's food
carnivorous
carnivore
quantity of food one eats; food intake
cooking oil
food cereals
index finger / (literary) mouths to feed
esophagus; gullet / (Tw) regulation of food safety and sanitation (abbr. for 食品衛生管理|食品卫生管理)
small toy or figurine included with a food product / DIY candy kit
esophagus; gullet / (old) the proper way to eat / (old) food transportation route
(TCM) food therapy; treatment via food
manger
restaurant / eatery
foodstuff
table vinegar
diner (in a restaurant etc) / hanger-on / sponger
tonic food (food considered to be particularly healthful) / to eat such foods
lit. to grow fat eating one's words (idiom) / fig. not to live up to one's promises
to break one's promise
(food) ingredient
lit. food not filling the stomach (idiom) / fig. poverty-stricken
ant-eater (several different species)
food poisoning
piranha
cooking method
to draw government pay / to be in public service / salary of an official
ogre
food chain
food and sex / appetite and lust
esophageal cancer
lit. to be hardly worth eating, but it would still be a pity to discard it (idiom) / fig. some things have little to no value, yet one is still reluctant to part with them
insectivorous plant
tableware
herbivore
ghoul
Carnivora, order of carnivores within Mammalia
edible salt
salary of a public official / to be in government service
food processor
scavenger
cassowary (genus Casuarius), large flightless bird native to northeastern Australia and New Guinea / CL: 隻|只
lit. to eat without tasting the food / worried or downhearted (idiom)
food vendor's stand
carnivorous species
see 蟹獴
cannibalism
man-eating shark / same as 大白鯊|大白鲨, great white shark (Carcharodon carcharias)
to swallow ancient learning without digesting it (idiom) / to be pedantic without having a mastery of one's subject
eclipse season
(idiom) to be excited to dig into the delicious food
US Food and Drug Administration authority (FDA)
larder / pantry
larder / pantry
cooking oil / food oil
to eat sb's flesh and sleep on their hide (idiom); to swear revenge on sb / implacable hatred / to have sb's guts for garters
Appetite and lust are only natural (Mencius 6A:4). / By nature we desire food and sex.
to eat bitter fruit and lie on thorns (idiom); to share the hard life of the common people
edible mushroom
Insectivora
a short moment


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