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食品shí pǐn
food
Definitions
Chinese > English | ||
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. | ||
English > Chinese | ||
food | ||
1. 名词. 食物 | ||
Components | ||
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 | ||
(syn, zh, 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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