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罐装食品guàn zhuāng shí pǐn
canned food
Definitions
| Components | ||
| 食品 | shípǐn | |
| 1. n. food; foodstuff | ||
| 加工 食品 - processed food | ||
| 罐裝 食品 - canned food | ||
| 轉基因 食品 - genetically modified food | ||
| 焙烤 食品 - baked goods | ||
| 醃製 食品 - cured foods | ||
| 海產 食品 - seafood | ||
| 不准 帶 入 食品 和 飲料。 - No food or drinks inside. | ||
| 食品 安全，和諧 萬家。 - Safe food, safe community. | ||
| 2. usage. There is no exact equivalent for English food in Chinese. The most generic term for food is 料理. | ||
| 罐 | guàn | |
| 1. can; jar; tin; cylindrical container for holding objects or liquids or cooking | ||
| 2. coal tub | ||
| 装 | ||
| 1. Variant of 裝 | ||
| 裝 | zhuāng | |
| 1. baggage; luggage; bags | ||
| 2. outfit; clothes; clothing | ||
| 3. style of dress | ||
| 西裝 - business suit; Western-style clothes | ||
| 4. items for daily use; dowry | ||
| 5. style of bookbinding | ||
| 6. style of packaging or storage | ||
| 7. to dress up; to attire; to clothe | ||
| 8. to feign; to pretend; to make believe | ||
| 裝傻 - to play the fool | ||
| 9. to load; to stack; to cram; to fill | ||
| 10. to wrap (something in a bag); to put into | ||
| 11. to assemble; to install (a fixture, a computer program, etc.) | ||
| 裝 個 電話 - to install a telephone | ||
| 12. to hold; to store; to contain | ||
| 裝 垃圾 - to hold garbage | ||
| 唔可以 裝 水 - cannot contain water | ||
| 13. to carry; to convey | ||
| 14. to mount; to decorate; to adorn | ||
| 15. 31st tetragram of the Taixuanjing; "packing" (?) | ||
| 16. (Hakka) to get injured or damaged after being hit by something | ||
| 17. (Sichuan) to piece together | ||
| 18. (Cantonese) Alternative form of ? | ||
| 食 | shí | |
| 1. (literary or Cantonese, Hakka) to eat; to have a meal; to take in | ||
| 你 食 咗 飯 未 呀？ - Have you eaten yet? | ||
| 中國人 係 揸 筷子 食飯 嘅。 - Chinese people use chopsticks to eat with. | ||
| 上 星sing1期kei4日 我 同 啲 朋友 一齊 食 晚飯。 - Last Sunday, I ate dinner together with my friends. | ||
| 2. (dialectal Cantonese, Hakka) to drink | ||
| 3. (Cantonese, Hakka, Min) to smoke | ||
| 食煙 - sik6 jin1 - to smoke, C | ||
| 4. (Cantonese, board games) to capture | ||
| 玩 盲棋kei4-2 嘅 時候，車geoi1 可以 食 馬、炮paau3、士、象、卒zeot1。 - When playing blind chess, a rook can capture knights, cannons, advisors, bishops or pawns. | ||
| 5. (Cantonese, mahjong) Short for 食糊, gloss=to win | ||
| 6. (Cantonese, figuratively) to receive; to accept; to absorb | ||
| 硬食 - ngaang6 sik6 - , C | ||
| 7. (Cantonese) to hit on; to flirt | ||
| 食女 - sik6 neoi5-2 - , C | ||
| 8. =====Usage notes===== | ||
| 9. (Coastal Min) to eat; to have a meal | ||
| 食飯 (chia̍h-pn̄g) - to eat rice; to have a meal, MN | ||
| 汝 食 飽 未？ (Lí chia̍h pá bōe?) - Have you eaten yet?, MN | ||
| 10. (Coastal Min) to drink | ||
| 食茶 (ziah8 tê5) - to drink tea, MN-T | ||
| 食 燒酒 (chia̍h sio-chiú) - to drink rice wine, MN | ||
| 11. (Coastal Min) to take in; to inhale | ||
| 食薰 (chia̍h-hun) - to inhale smoke; to smoke, MN | ||
| 12. (Hokkien, Teochew) to embezzle (money) | ||
| 食鐳lui (chia̍h-lui) - to embezzle money, MN | ||
| 13. (Hokkien, mahjong) to chow | ||
| 14. (Teochew, Penang Hokkien) cuisine | ||
| Synonyms: 菜 | ||
| 廣東 食 ((rftranslit, zhx-teo) - Guangdong food, MN-T) | ||
| 15. =====Usage notes===== | ||
| 16. (Inland Min) Alternative form of 饁 (-, t=to eat) | ||
| 酈 食yì-其jī (Lì Yìjī) - Li Yiji (an advisor to Liu Bang) | ||
| 品 | pǐn | |
| 1. article; item; product; commodity | ||
| 商品 - merchandise | ||
| 食品 - foodstuff | ||
| 2. personality; character | ||
| 3. grade; level; rank; class | ||
| 4. (musical instrument, of a string instrument) fret | ||
| 5. to taste | ||
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Pronunciation
guàn zhuāng shí pǐn
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