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素食

sù shí

Old HSK 6 HSK 3.0 level 7-9 2-character word

素食 (sù shí) means "vegetarian food; to eat a vegetarian diet". It is an HSK 3.0 level 7-9 word, and was HSK 6 in the old six-level list.

What 素食 means

1. vegetarian food
2. to eat a vegetarian diet

The characters in 素食

• 素sùraw silk; white; plain, unadorned
• 食shíto eat; food; animal feed

Example sentences

• 你是素食者。
  You are a vegetarian.
• 她是素食者。
  She is a vegetarian.
• 我是纯素食者。
  Wǒ shì chúnsùshízhě.
  I'm a vegan.
• 他是纯素食者。
  He's vegan.
• 我是素食主义者。
  I am a vegetarian.
• 汤姆是纯素食者。
  Tom is a vegan.

Words starting with 素食

• 素食者sù shí zhěvegetarian
• 素食主义sù shí zhǔ yìvegetarianism

Words containing 素食

• 全素食quán sù shívegan
• 自由素食主义zì yóu sù shí zhǔ yìFreeganism
• 纯素食chún sù shívegan; vegan food
• 纯素食者chún sù shí zhěa vegan; person following a vegan diet
• 纯素食主义chún sù shí zhǔ yìveganism, a diet consisting solely of plant products; strict vegetarianism

Sounds the same

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

• 速食(of food) fast; instant; (Taiwan) fast food

Where 素食 is taught

In the GraphChinese course it is part of HSK 6 Vocabulary · sǐ–sù (HSK 6), each one a topic in the dependency graph of HSK 1–6 that opens only once its prerequisites are solid.

Go deeper

• Every HSK 6 word, with the rest of its level.
• The four tones and the neutral tone, to read sù shí correctly.
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