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粮食

liáng shi

Old HSK 5 HSK 3.0 level 5 2-character word Traditional 糧食 Measure word 种

粮食 (liáng shi) means "food, grain". It is an HSK 3.0 level 5 word, and was HSK 5 in the old six-level list.

What 粮食 means

1. foodstuff
2. cereals

The characters in 粮食

• 粮liánggrain; food; provisions
• 食shíto eat; food; animal feed

Example sentences

• 粮食供应十分充足。
  There is an abundant supply of foodstuffs.
• 他们想栽培新品种的米来增加粮食生产。
  Tāmen xiǎng zāipéi xīn pǐnzhǒng de mǐ lái zēngjiā liángshi shēngchǎn.
  They want to increase food production by growing new kinds of rice.
• 我又转念，见日光之下，快跑的未必能赢，力战的未必得胜，智慧的未必得粮食，明哲的未必得资财，灵巧的未必得喜悦，所临到众人的，是在乎当时的机会。
  Wǒ yòu zhuǎnniàn, jiàn rìguāng zhīxià, kuàipǎo de wèibì néng yíng, lìzhàn de wèibì déshèng, zhìhuì de wèibì de liángshi, míng zhé de wèibì de zīcái, língqiǎo de wèibì de xǐyuè, suǒ líndào zhòngrén de, shì zàihu dāngshí de jīhuì.
  I returned, and saw under the sun, that the race is not to the swift, nor the battle to the strong, neither yet bread to the wise, nor yet riches to men of understanding, nor yet favor to men of skill; but time and chance happen to them all.

Words starting with 粮食

• 粮食作物liáng shi zuò wùgrain crops; cereals

Words containing 粮食

• 世界粮食署shì jiè liáng shi shǔWorld food program (United Nations aid agency)

Where 粮食 is taught

In the GraphChinese course it is part of Remaining & Varied Terms (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 liáng shi correctly.
• Look up another word in the free dictionary.