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Mythic Mandarin

美食 (měi shí): meaning and stroke order

美食 (měi shí) means culinary delicacy, fine food, gourmet food.

美食

Simplified
美食
Traditional
美食 (same form)
Pinyin
měi shí

Stroke order of 美食

美

  • Měi (bound form) the Americas (abbr. for 美洲[Mei3 zhou1]); (bound form) USA (abbr. for 美國|美国[Mei3 guo2])
  • měi beautiful; very satisfactory; good
  • 9 strokes

Stroke by stroke

食

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

Stroke by stroke

Meaning of 美食

  1. měi shí
    • culinary delicacy
    • fine food
    • gourmet food

Radicals of the characters

美
Radical 羊 (Kangxi radical 123) · 9 strokes · 𦍌 on top, 大 below
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.

美食 in our stories

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  • 一位美食作家在网上写了一篇文章，说他的菜越来越咸，服务也越来越差。

    yí wèi měishí zuòjiā zài wǎngshang xiě le yì piān wénzhāng shuō tā de cài yuèláiyuè xián fúwù yě yuèláiyuè chà

    A food writer published an article online saying his dishes were getting saltier and the service worse.

    From the story A second chance HSK 5

Stories using 美食

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).