食
to eat / food / animal feed / eclipse
食 character breakdown
one of the Eight Trigrams 八卦[ba1 gua4], symbolizing mountain / ☶ / ancient Chinese compass point: 45° (northeast)
good / very / very much
良
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丶
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艮
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Mnemonic symbol: A "thank you very much" card for being so good.
Everyday, Li Qingzhao (li) has been picking up the chewing gums (艮) from the ground of the anglepod's kitchen (ang2) with petal leaves (丶). One day, finally one guest approaches her and gives her a "thank you very much" card for being so good (良).
Everyday, Li Qingzhao (li) has been picking up the chewing gums (艮) from the ground of the anglepod's kitchen (ang2) with petal leaves (丶). One day, finally one guest approaches her and gives her a "thank you very much" card for being so good (良).
person; people / CL:個|个[ge4],位[wei4]
Characters with 食 as component
congee / making a living
糊
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米
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胡
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In the space station's kitchen (Ø2) Helga Horse (hu) is cooking a paste (糊) made of a whole sack of rice (米). She made a big mess, partly because the instructions were so unclear (糊) and therefore she was so muddled up (糊). She even had her Confucius moustache (胡) catch the oven's fire, so her moustache got scorched (糊), just as the rice paste.
(bound form) hungry; starving / (bound form) dispirited / (literary) (of fish) putrid
gluttonous / greedy / to have a craving
馋
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饣
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免
+
⺀
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Charlie Chaplin (ch) is so gluttonous (馋) he doesn't only finish all the Chinese crullers (饣) in the anthill's kitchen (an2), he even eats the blossoms (⺀) from the tables. After he complains about his stomach ache the owner shows him the disclaimer (免) freeing him from any liability.
Words with 食
lit. human beings will die for riches, just as birds will for food (idiom) / fig. man will do anything in his means to become rich
lit. not eating the food of common mortals / fig. placing oneself above the common populace
lit. to have only nine meals in thirty days (idiom) / fig. (of a family) on the brink of starvation / in dire straits
lit. "Why don't they eat meat?" (said by Emperor Hui of Jin 晉惠帝|晋惠帝[Jin4 Hui4 di4] when told that his people didn't have enough rice to eat) / fig. (of people from higher class etc) to be oblivious to other people's plight
Sentences with 食
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