食 shí

1. shí noun food; food and drink
   Domain: Literary Chinese 文言文
   Notes: (Kroll 2015 '食' shí 1a; Unihan '食')
2. shí noun Kangxi radical 184
   Domain: Modern Chinese 现代汉语 , Subdomain: Radicals
   Notes: Food (ABC back cover; GHC p. 7; Unihan '食')
3. shí verb to eat
   Domain: Literary Chinese 文言文
   Notes: A transitive verb preceded by the subject doing the eating and usually followed by the object being eaten (Kroll 2015 '食' shí 1; Unihan '食')
4. sì verb to feed
   Domain: Literary Chinese 文言文
   Notes: (Kroll 2015 '食' sì 1)
5. shí noun meal; cooked cereals
   Domain: Literary Chinese 文言文
   Notes: (Kroll 2015 '食' shí 1a; Unihan '食')
6. sì verb to raise; to nourish
   Domain: Literary Chinese 文言文
   Notes: (Kroll 2015 '食' sì 1a)
7. shí verb to receive; to accept
   Domain: Literary Chinese 文言文
   Notes: (Kroll 2015 '食' shí 2)
8. shí verb to receive an official salary
   Domain: Literary Chinese 文言文
   Notes: (Kroll 2015 '食' shí 2a)
9. shí noun an eclipse
   Domain: Modern Chinese 现代汉语 , Subdomain: Astronomy
   Notes: Also 蚀 (Kroll 2015 '食' shí 3; Wikipedia '食')

Contained in

• 自由素食主义(自由素食主義) Freeganism
• 茶食店 a teahouse
• 食蚁兽(食蟻獸) ant-eater (several different species)
• 食肉目 Carnivora
• 禄食(祿食) official pay
• 食用 to be edible
• 食邑 a fiefdom
• 军食(軍食) army supplies
• 人为财死，鸟为食亡(人為財死，鳥為食亡) human beings will die for riches, just as birds will for food
• 食草动物(食草動物) herbivore
• 忌食 to fast
• 积食(積食) to retain food in the stomach due to indigestion
• 食疗(食療) food therapy; treatment via food (TCM)
• 蚕食(蠶食) to nibble away at (as silkworm consume leaves); fig. to embezzle progressively
• 异食癖(異食癖) pica
• 食不厌精脍不厌细(食不厭精膾不厭細) He did not dislike to have his rice finely cleaned, nor to have his mince meat cut quite small.
• 进食(進食) to take a meal; to eat
• 弱肉强食(弱肉強食) the weak are prey to the strong; predatory behavior; the law of the jungle
• 饥不择食(飢不擇食) when hungry you cannot choose what to eat
• 食醋 table vinegar
• 食具 tableware
• 绿色食品(綠色食品) clean, unadulterated food product; organic food
• 冗食 eating without working
• 斋居蔬食(齋居蔬食) to live a plain and simple life
• 厌食(厭食) anorexia
• 忘食 forget to eat
• 食之无味，弃之可惜(食之無味，棄之可惜) to be hardly worth eating, but it would still be a pity to discard it
• 食言而肥 to grow fat eating one's words; not to live up to one's promises
• 消食 to aid digestion
• 素食品 vegetarian food
• 食噉 to eat
• 暴食症 bulimia
• 食人鲨(食人鯊) man-eating shark
• 超加工食品 ultra-processed food
• 药食同源(藥食同源) food and medicine come from the same source
• 自食其力 to stand on one's own feet; to earn one's own living
• 掠食 to prey on; predation; predatory
• 食盐(食鹽) edible salt
• 草食动物(草食動物) herbivore; herbivorous animal
• 黑心食品 contaminated food product unscrupulously marketed as wholesome
• 食人鱼(食人魚) piranha
• 素食 vegetarian food ; ordinary food; plain food ; official salary only
• 粮食(糧食) grains
• 食物网(食物網) food web
• 熟食店 deli; delicatessen
• 辍食吐哺(輟食吐哺) to stop eating and spit out
• 饮食疗养(飲食療養) diet
• 食品 foodstuff; food; provisions
• 食肉寝皮(食肉寢皮) to eat sb's flesh and sleep on their hide; to swear revenge on sb; implacable hatred

Also contained in

食物及药品管理局 、 食品药品监督局

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Truncated for common words

• 卷五十三　志第五:　　曆二 Volume 53 Treatises 6: Calendar 2 History of Yuan 元史 — count: 290
• 卷五十二 志第五 天文五 Volume 52 Treatises 5: Astronomy 5 History of Song 宋史 — count: 197
• 卷二十七下之下 五行志 Volume 27e: Treatise on the Five Elements 5 Book of Han 漢書 — count: 146
• 卷17　志第12 律曆中 Volume 17 Treatises 12: Measures and the Calendar 2 Book of Sui 隋書 — count: 132
• 卷三十一 志第七 曆一 Volume 31 Treatises 7: Calendar 1 History of Ming 明史 — count: 125
• 卷七十五 志第二十八 律曆八 Volume 75 Treatises 28: Measures and Calendar 8 History of Song 宋史 — count: 98
• 卷六十九 志第二十二 律曆二 Volume 69 Treatises 22: Measures and Calendar 2 History of Song 宋史 — count: 97
• 卷三十二　　　　志第二十二　　天文二 Volume 32 Treatises 26: Astronomy 2 New Book of Tang 新唐書 — count: 94
• 《食部》 Shì Radical Shuo Wen Jie Zi 說文解字 — count: 84
• 卷三十七 志第十三 曆七 Volume 37 Treatises 13: Calendar 7 History of Ming 明史 — count: 75

Collocations

• 退食 (退食) 退食自公 — The Book of Songs 詩經, 國風‧召南‧羔羊 Lessons from the states - Odes Of Shao And The South - Gao Yang — count: 4
• 食桑葚 (食桑葚) 無食桑葚 — The Book of Songs 詩經, 國風‧衞‧氓 Lessons from the states - Odes of Wei - Mang — count: 4
• 蓐食 (蓐食) 秣馬蓐食 — The Commentary of Zuo on the Spring and Autumn Annals 春秋左氏傳, 文公 Lord Wen — count: 3
• 玉食 (玉食) 惟辟玉食 — Book of Documents 尚書, 周書 洪範 Zhou Shu - Great Plan — count: 3
• 鲜食 (鮮食) 暨益奏庶鮮食 — Book of Documents 尚書, 虞書 益稷 Yu Shu - Yi and Ji — count: 3
• 食野 (食野) 食野之苹 — The Book of Songs 詩經, 小雅‧鹿鳴之什‧鹿鳴 Minor odes of the kingdom - Decade Of Lu Ming - Lu Ming — count: 3
• 食贫 (食貧) 三歲食貧 — The Book of Songs 詩經, 國風‧衞‧氓 Lessons from the states - Odes of Wei - Mang — count: 3
• 食郊 (食郊) 鼷鼠食郊牛角 — The Commentary of Zuo on the Spring and Autumn Annals 春秋左氏傳, 成公 Lord Cheng — count: 3
• 食粟 (食粟) 馬不食粟 — The Commentary of Zuo on the Spring and Autumn Annals 春秋左氏傳, 成公 Lord Cheng — count: 2
• 来食 (來食) 將其來食 — The Book of Songs 詩經, 國風‧王‧丘中有麻 Lessons from the states - Odes of Wang - Qiu Zhong You Ma — count: 2