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food / CL: 種|种
HSK 2
foodstuff; food; provisions / CL: 種|种
HSK 3
dining hall; cafeteria / CL: 個|个, 間|间
HSK 4
appetite
HSK 6
to eat; to consume / edible
HSK 7-9
board and lodging / room and board
HSK 7-9
index finger / (literary) mouths to feed
carnivore
esophageal cancer
cookbook / recipe / diet / CL: , 個|个
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  *食* | 食* | *食
to eat / food / animal feed / eclipse
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  *食* | 食* | *食
to feed (a person or animal)
food poisoning
edible salt
diner (in a restaurant etc) / hanger-on / sponger
tonic food (food considered to be particularly healthful) / to eat such foods
cooking oil
food chain
esophagus; gullet / (old) the proper way to eat / (old) food transportation route
piranha
lit. to eat without tasting the food / worried or downhearted (idiom)
insectivorous plant
man-eating shark / same as 大白鯊|大白鲨, great white shark (Carcharodon carcharias)
(idiom) to be excited to dig into the delicious food
a short moment
small toy or figurine included with a food product / DIY candy kit
herbivore
quantity of food one eats; food intake
ant-eater (several different species)
to break one's promise
cassowary (genus Casuarius), large flightless bird native to northeastern Australia and New Guinea / CL: 隻|只
scavenger
tableware
salary of a public official / to be in government service
to swallow ancient learning without digesting it (idiom) / to be pedantic without having a mastery of one's subject
(food) ingredient
to eat sb's flesh and sleep on their hide (idiom); to swear revenge on sb / implacable hatred / to have sb's guts for garters
lit. to grow fat eating one's words (idiom) / fig. not to live up to one's promises
esophagus; gullet / (Tw) regulation of food safety and sanitation (abbr. for 食品衛生管理|食品卫生管理)
food cereals
lit. food not filling the stomach (idiom) / fig. poverty-stricken
foodstuff
food is more precious than jade and firewood more expensive than cassia (idiom) / the cost of living is very high
man-eating (beast) / to eat people / fig. to oppress the people
restaurant / eatery
cooking method
(TCM) food therapy; treatment via food
carnivorous
to draw government pay / to be in public service / salary of an official
table vinegar
Carnivora, order of carnivores within Mammalia
ogre
manger
lit. to be hardly worth eating, but it would still be a pity to discard it (idiom) / fig. some things have little to no value, yet one is still reluctant to part with them
(Singapore, Malaysia, Hong Kong) drinking water
larder / pantry
cooking oil / food oil
food and sex / appetite and lust
lit. to eat but finely ground grain and finely chopped meat (idiom, from Analects) / fig. to be fastidious about one's food
cannibalism
food processor
food vendor's stand
eclipse season
ghoul
US Food and Drug Administration authority (FDA)
larder / pantry
carnivorous species
Appetite and lust are only natural (Mencius 6A:4). / By nature we desire food and sex.
to eat bitter fruit and lie on thorns (idiom); to share the hard life of the common people
edible mushroom
Insectivora
see 蟹獴


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