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食

Mandarin · pinyin shí#

Meanings · shí

  1. to eat
  2. food
  3. animal feed
  4. eclipse
Mandarin · pinyin sì#

Meanings · sì

  1. to feed (a person or animal)
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食
shí · eat; meal; food; Kangxi radical 184
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Rime Cantonese 粵拼

ji6 · sik6 · zi6

Cantonese word readings for 食. This lexicon supplies readings, not definitions.

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Definitions

  1. (literary or Cantonese, Hakka) to eat; to have a meal; to take in
  2. (dialectal Cantonese, Hakka) to drink
  3. (Cantonese, Hakka) to take in; to inhale; to smoke
  4. (Cantonese) to consume; to use up
  5. (Cantonese, figurative) to extract; to extort; to absorb; to swallow
  6. (Cantonese) to absorb; to get into; to enter; to be stuck inside
  7. (Cantonese, Hakka, board games) to capture
  8. (Cantonese, mahjong) short for 食糊 (“to win”)
  9. (Cantonese) to receive; to be affected by; to be on the receiving end
  10. meal; food
  11. edible
  12. alternative form of 蝕 / 蚀 (shí, “to eat away; to erode”)
  13. eclipse

Definitions

  1. original form of 飼／饲 (sì, “to feed; to make ... eat or cause ... to eat”)

Definitions

  1. (Coastal Min) to eat; to have a meal; to take in
  2. (Coastal Min) to drink
  3. (Coastal Min) to take in; to inhale; to smoke
  4. (Southern Min) to embezzle; to misappropriate (money)
  5. (Eastern Min, Hokkien, Leizhou Min, board games) to capture
  6. (Southern Min) to consume; to use up
  7. (Hokkien) to suffer; to endure; to bear
  8. (Hokkien, mahjong) to chow
  9. (Hokkien, Leizhou Min) to dine at (a certain food establishment)
  10. (Southern Min) to rely on; to depend on
  11. (Hokkien, Leizhou Min) to engage in; to undertake; to do (for a living)
  12. (Southern Min) to live; to grow up
  13. (Mainland China Hokkien) to pick on; to bully; to push around
  14. (Mainland China Hokkien) to make a decision; to resolve to
  15. (Taiwanese Hokkien) to colour; to dye
  16. (Penang Hokkien, Teochew) cuisine
  17. (Leizhou Min) to be eaten away (by insects, etc.)

Definitions

  1. (Inland Min) alternative form of 饁 / 馌 (“to eat”)

Definitions

  1. Used in an ancient personal name.

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