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小吃

xiǎo chī

Old HSK 5 HSK 3.0 level 4 2-character word

小吃 (xiǎo chī) means "snack". It is an HSK 3.0 level 4 word, and was HSK 5 in the old six-level list.

What 小吃 means

1. street food; snack

The characters in 小吃

• 小xiǎosmall; tiny; few
• 吃chīto eat; to consume; to eat at (a cafeteria etc); to eradicate; to destroy

Words starting with 小吃

• 小吃店xiǎo chī diànsnack bar; lunch room

Where 小吃 is taught

In the GraphChinese course it is part of Attitude, Light Food & Contempt (HSK 5), each one a topic in the dependency graph of HSK 1–6 that opens only once its prerequisites are solid.

Go deeper

• Every HSK 5 word, with the rest of its level.
• The four tones and the neutral tone, to read xiǎo chī correctly.
• Look up another word in the free dictionary.