shí

Traditional: 食

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Translation

food, eat (literary, bound)

Stroke order

Stroke order for 食

Examples

Food is important.

pǐndiàn

This grocery store is good.

jiànkāng

He likes healthy food.

shuāngmóu

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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This word is part of lesson 107.