食 (sik6) — sth edible; sth used for cooking in Cantonese
sikˍ₆食
Mandarin Pinyin: shi2
Meaning of 食
nounsth edible; sth used for cooking
nouneat; have a meal | [syn] 吃
nouneclipse (usu 蝕)
nounfood; meal; (poultry) feed
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Example Sentences with 食
嗰間餐廳啲嘢好好食㗎！
The food at that restaurant is excellent!
neiˏ₅你soengˊ²想sikˍ₆食ngauˎ₄牛jukˍ₆肉haiˍ₆定zyuˉ¹係jukˍ₆豬a˗₃肉?呀？
Do you want to eat beef or pork?
neiˏ₅你zungˉ¹鍾mˎ₄唔zungˉ¹鍾ji˗₃意sikˍ₆食faaˉ¹花sangˉ¹生gaa˗₃㗎？
Do you like to eat peanuts?
你想食麵定係食飯呀？
Do you want to eat noodles or rice?
我呢排食少咗嘢
I've recently been eating less.
Words Containing 食
食風sik6 fung1
travel, tour, take a vacation, go for a ride {Malaysia and Singapore usage}
食煙sik6 jin1
to smoke a cigarette (Mandarin equivalent: 抽煙 or 吸煙)
為食wai6 sik6
greedy; gluttonous; gourmand; greedy (for food) [Syn.] 為食貓 , 為食鬼 [華]: 饞嘴
搶食coeng2 sik6
feeding frenzy
食物銀行sik6 mat6 ngan4 hong4
food bank (place for the needy to get foodstuff handouts)
小食店siu2 sik6 dim3
deli
食唔晒sik6 m4 saai3
unable to finish eating | Mand.: 吃不完; 吃不掉; 吃不光
食井水sik6 zeng2 seoi2
(orig. of boat society women) to marry into a dry-land family; → (of women) to marry into a family of higher social class; to marry into a family of means and to live comfortably because of it; (of female prostitutes, a euphemism) to marry | Literally, "to consume well-water", the inference is that the woman is no longer sourcing her drinking and cooking water from rivers and streams, but from wells, as dry-land people traditionally do | Also: 埋街食井水; 埋街
食晏sik6 aan3
to eat lunch | Mand.: 吃午餐 | Short for 食晏晝飯
好食懶飛hou3 sik6 laan5 fei1
lazy
有機食物jau5 gei1 sik6 mat6
organic food
食碗面，反碗底sik6 wun2 min2 faan2 wun2 dai2
(idiom) to repay kindness with ingratitude; to betray a friend
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