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食 (sik6) — meaning, pronunciation, examples

食 (sik6, shí) — to eat; food; animal feed; eclipse; to take something (such as medicine; drugs); to smoke (cigarettes; cigars etc); to suffer; to consume; to expend; to rely on something for a living; to take advantage of a situation to do something; to subjugate; to capture; to take over; to devour; to defeat; to have sex with; to cheat; to frame someone; to receive something negative; KangXi radical 184

Classifier

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Usage

Level

beyond HSK

Related words

• 食七咁食 (sik6 cat1 gam2 sik6) — eating excessively or without manners (spoken)
• 食七噉食 (sik6 cat1 gam2 sik6) — to engorge (eat to excess); to gobble; to devour ravenously
• 食井水 (sik6 zeng2 seoi2) — (prostitutes) to get married; or women living on boats to get married to someon…
• 食人唔𦧲骨 (sik6 jan4 m4 loe1 gwat1) — (to eat someone and not spit out the bones); be ruthless and avaricious
• 食人族 (sik6 jan4 zuk6) — the cannibals
• 食人隻車 (sik6 jan4 zek3 geoi1) — to reap an excessively large profit from the other party in a deal

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