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饮食

Traditional: 飲食

yǐn shí

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yǐn shí · jam2 sik6 (Jyutping)

  1. eating and drinking
  2. food and drink; diet

Definitions: CC-CEDICT contributors · CC BY-SA 4.0 · snapshot 2026-10-09. Display: consolidated readings, linked characters and marked pinyin. Original data

Character breakdown

饮

Meaning
drink; swallow; kind of drink
Radical
饣
Strokes
7
Components
⿰饣欠
Cangjie
NVNO
Four-corner
2778

食

Meaning
eat; meal; food; Kangxi radical 184
Radical
食
Strokes
9
Components
⿱人良
Cangjie
OIAV
Four-corner
8073.2

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