Food in Chinese
food · HSK 4
食品
- 食 to eat
- 品 article
Counted with 种: 一种食品
这家超市的食品很新鲜。 The food at this supermarket is very fresh.
Other ways to say food
More words with 食 or 品
How do you say food in Chinese?
Food in Chinese is 食品 (shí pǐn). You can also say 食物 (shí wù), 粮食 (liáng shi), 饭 (fàn).
Which word should I use?
Start with the first one: it is the easiest on the HSK list. The others say it too, often in a more formal way or for a narrower sense; each one’s page has real sentences that show how it is used.
Where do these words come from?
The CC-CEDICT dictionary’s meanings for the official HSK word list. A word is shown for an English word when that is one of its first meanings; the easiest word whose first meaning it is comes first.
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Meanings from CC-CEDICT (CC BY-SA 4.0). Chinese often has more than one way to say a word.