食
shíTraditional: 食
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Translation
food, eat (literary, bound)
Stroke order
食
Examples
。
Food is important.
品店。
This grocery store is good.
健康。
He likes healthy food.
双谋。
He earns his food with his own hands.
。
He eats a lot.
食 (shí) is the literary morpheme for food or eat, anchoring 食物 (shíwù) and 食品 (shípǐn, foodstuffs).
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Multi-character compounds in the corpus that contain 食.
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