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美食

měi shí

HSK 3.0 level 4 2-character word

美食 (měi shí) means "culinary delicacy; fine food; gourmet food". It is an HSK 3.0 level 4 word, and was not on the old six-level HSK list.

What 美食 means

1. culinary delicacy
2. fine food
3. gourmet food

The characters in 美食

• 美měibeautiful; very satisfactory; good; to beautify
• 食shíto eat; food; animal feed

Words starting with 美食

• 美食家měi shí jiāgourmet
• 美食街měi shí jiēfood court; food street
• 美食沙漠měi shí shā mòculinary desert
• 美食荒漠měi shí huāng mòculinary desert

Words containing 美食

• 爽心美食shuǎng xīn měi shícomfort food

Sounds the same

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

• 美石precious stone; jewel

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