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寒食

hán shí

2-character word

What 寒食 means

1. cold food (i.e. to abstain from cooked food for 3 days around the Qingming festival 清明节)
2. the Qingming festival

The characters in 寒食

• 寒háncold; poor; to tremble
• 食shíto eat; food; animal feed

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