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捕食

bǔ shí

HSK 3.0 level 7-9 2-character word

捕食 (bǔ shí) means "to prey on; to catch and feed on; to hunt for food". It is an HSK 3.0 level 7-9 word, and was not on the old six-level HSK list.

What 捕食 means

1. to prey on
2. to catch and feed on
3. to hunt for food

The characters in 捕食

• 捕bǔto catch; to seize; to capture
• 食shíto eat; food; animal feed

Example sentences

• 鲟鱼有时长得比一些它的捕食者还大，寿命甚至能超过50年。
  Sturgeons can sometimes live for over 50 years, growing so large that few predators hunt them.

Words starting with 捕食

• 捕食者bǔ shí zhěpredator

Sounds the same

Read bǔ shí, tone for tone, but written differently.

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• The four tones and the neutral tone, to read bǔ shí correctly.
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