Snack in Chinese
snack · HSK 4
零食
- 零 zero
- 食 to eat
孩子不要吃太多零食。 Children shouldn't eat too many snacks.
Other ways to say snack
More words with 零 or 食
How do you say snack in Chinese?
Snack in Chinese is 零食 (líng shí). You can also say 小吃 (xiǎo chī), 点心 (diǎn xin).
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.