吃食

Chinese

		eat; eradicate; destroy eat; eradicate; destroy; receive; stammer	eat; food; to feed eat; food; to feed; animal feed
trad. (吃食/喫食)		吃/喫	食
simp. (吃食)		吃	食

Pronunciation 1

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): chīshi

  (Zhuyin): ㄔ ˙ㄕ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): hek³ sik⁶

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: chīshi
    • Zhuyin: ㄔ ˙ㄕ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: chihshi̊h
    • Wade–Giles: chʻih¹-shih⁵
    • Yale: chr̄-shr
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: chy.shy
    • Palladius: чиши (čiši)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /ʈ͡ʂʰʐ̩⁵⁵ ʂʐ̩²/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)⁺
    • Jyutping: hek³ sik⁶
    • Yale: hek sihk
    • Cantonese Pinyin: hek⁸ sik⁹
    • Guangdong Romanization: hég³ xig⁶
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /hɛːk̚³ sɪk̚²/

Noun

吃食

1. (colloquial) food; grub
   • 1919, 《新舊約全書：官話和合譯本》 [Mandarin Bible, Union Version], Shanghai: American Bible Society, 出埃及記 [Exodus] 21:10:

     若另娶一個、那女子的喫食、衣服、並好合的事、仍不可減少。 [MSC, trad.]
     若另娶一个、那女子的吃食、衣服、并好合的事、仍不可减少。 [MSC, simp.]

     Ruò lìng qǔ yī ge, nà nǚzǐ de chīshi, yīfu, bìng hǎohé de shì, réng bùkě jiǎnshǎo. [Pinyin]

     If he take him another wife; her food, her raiment, and her duty of marriage, shall he not diminish.

Synonyms

Dialectal synonyms of 食物 (“food”) [map]

Variety	Location	Words edit
Classical Chinese		食物
Formal (Written Standard Chinese)		食物
Northeastern Mandarin	Beijing	吃食, 吃兒
	Taiwan	食物
	Harbin	食物
Jilu Mandarin	Jinan	食物, 食品
Central Plains Mandarin	Wanrong	吃的
	Xi'an	吃的
	Xining	吃食
	Xuzhou	吃食
Lanyin Mandarin	Yinchuan	吃的, 吃頭
Southwestern Mandarin	Chengdu	吃的, 吃貨
	Wuhan	吃食
	Guiyang	吃的
	Guilin	吃的
	Liuzhou	吃的東西, 食物
Mandarin	Singapore	食物
Cantonese	Hong Kong	嘢食, 食物
Gan	Pingxiang	吃食
Hakka	Meixian	食物
	Miaoli (N. Sixian)	食物
	Pingtung (Neipu; S. Sixian)	食物
	Hsinchu County (Zhudong; Hailu)	食物
	Taichung (Dongshi; Dabu)	食物
	Hsinchu County (Qionglin; Raoping)	食物
	Yunlin (Lunbei; Zhao'an)	食物
Huizhou	Jixi	食品
Jin	Taiyuan	食物
Eastern Min	Fuzhou	食其乇
Southern Min	Xiamen	食物, 物食, 食食
	Quanzhou	食物, 食食
	Zhangzhou	食物, 物食, 食食
	Tainan	食物, 物食
	Singapore (Hokkien)	食食, 物食
	Manila (Hokkien)	食物, 食食
	Leizhou	物食
	Haikou	物食
Zhongshan Min	Shaxi (Longdu)	食物
Southern Pinghua	Nanning (Tingzi)	食物
Wu	Shanghai	吃個物事
	Shanghai (Chongming)	吃食物事
Xiang	Loudi	吃個

Pronunciation 2

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): chīshí

  (Zhuyin): ㄔ ㄕˊ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): hek³ sik⁶

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: chīshí
    • Zhuyin: ㄔ ㄕˊ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: chihshíh
    • Wade–Giles: chʻih¹-shih²
    • Yale: chr̄-shŕ
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: chyshyr
    • Palladius: чиши (čiši)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /ʈ͡ʂʰʐ̩⁵⁵ ʂʐ̩³⁵/
      
  • (Standard Chinese, erhua-ed)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: chīshír
    • Zhuyin: ㄔ ㄕˊㄦ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: chihshíhr
    • Wade–Giles: chʻih¹-shih²-ʼrh
    • Yale: chr̄-shír
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: chysherl
    • Palladius: чишир (čišir)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /ʈ͡ʂʰʐ̩⁵⁵ ʂʐ̩ɻ³⁵/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)⁺
    • Jyutping: hek³ sik⁶
    • Yale: hek sihk
    • Cantonese Pinyin: hek⁸ sik⁹
    • Guangdong Romanization: hég³ xig⁶
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /hɛːk̚³ sɪk̚²/

Verb

吃食

1. (of animals) to eat; to feed
   • 1919, 《新舊約全書：官話和合譯本》 [Mandarin Bible, Union Version], Shanghai: American Bible Society, 馬太福音 [Matthew] 8:30:

     離他們很遠、有一大羣豬喫食。 [MSC, trad.]
     离他们很远、有一大群猪吃食。 [MSC, simp.]

     Lí tāmen hěn yuǎn, yǒu yī dà qún zhū chīshí. [Pinyin]

     Now there was afar off from them a herd of many swine feeding. (English Revised Version)