食 (shí): meaning and stroke order
食 (shí) means to eat, food, animal feed, eclipse, to feed (a person or animal).
食
- Simplified
- 食
- Traditional
- 食 (same form)
- Pinyin
- shí · sì
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Stroke order of 食
食
- shí to eat; food
- sì to feed (a person or animal)
- 9 strokes
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Meaning of 食
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shí
- to eat
- food
- animal feed
- eclipse
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sì
- to feed (a person or animal)
Radical and structure
- 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.
Words with 食
- 美食 měi shí culinary delicacy; fine food
- 寒食 hán shí cold food (i.e. to abstain from cooked food for 3 days around the Qingming festival 清明節|清明节); the Qingming festival
- 粮食 liáng shi foodstuff; cereals
- 饮食 yǐn shí eating and drinking; food and drink; diet
食 in our stories
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晋文公抱着那棵柳树痛哭，下令以后每年这一天，全国不许生火，只吃冷食，这就是寒食节的由来。
Jìn Wéngōng bào zhe nà kē liǔshù tòngkū xiàlìng yǐhòu měinián zhè yì tiān quánguó bùxǔ shēnghuǒ zhǐ chī lěng shí zhè jiùshì Hánshíjié de yóulái
Duke Wen embraced the willow and wept, and decreed that every year on that day no fire should be lit anywhere in the land and only cold food eaten. That is the origin of the Cold Food Festival.
From the story Cold Food Day and Qingming HSK 7–9 · Level 7
Stories using 食
- Cold Food Day and Qingming HSK 7–9 · Level 7
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).