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粮食 (liáng shi): meaning and stroke order

粮食 (liáng shi) means foodstuff, cereals, 种.

粮食

Simplified
粮食
Traditional
糧食
Pinyin
liáng shi

Stroke order of 粮食

粮

  • liáng grain; food
  • 13 strokes
  • Traditional form: 糧

Stroke by stroke

食

  • shí to eat; food
  • sì to feed (a person or animal)
  • 9 strokes

Stroke by stroke

Meaning of 粮食

  1. liáng shi Traditional 糧食
    • foodstuff
    • cereals
    • CL:種|种[zhong3]

Radicals of the characters

粮
Radical 米 (Kangxi radical 119) · 13 strokes · 米 on the left, 良 on the right
食
Radical 食 (Kangxi radical 184) · 9 strokes · 𠆢 on top, 良 below

Radicals and stroke counts: Unicode Unihan database. Structure: the shapes a character is written with (BabelStone IDS), not necessarily parts that carry meaning or sound.

粮食 in our stories

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  • 名字的最后，有一行小字：“荒年，官府禁止私放粮食，然人命关天，不敢见死不救。记此，勿让子孙忘。”

    míngzi de zuìhòu yǒu yì háng xiǎozì huāngnián guānfǔ jìnzhǐ sī fàng liángshi rán rénmìng guān tiān bù gǎn jiàn sǐ bú jiù jì cǐ wù ràng zǐsūn wàng

    After the names came a line in small script: "Famine year. The authorities forbid private grain relief, yet human life is at stake; I dare not stand by and let people die. I record this so my descendants will not forget."

    From the story Words written in rice water HSK 7–9 · Level 7

Stories using 粮食

Dictionary data: CC-CEDICT (CC BY-SA 4.0). Stroke data: Hanzi Writer data, derived from Make Me a Hanzi (Arphic Public License). Animation: Hanzi Writer (MIT licence). Radicals and stroke counts: Unicode Unihan (Unicode License v3).