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节食

jié shí

2-character word Traditional 節食

What 节食 means

1. to save food
2. to go on a diet

The characters in 节食

• 节jiéjoint; node; (bound form) section; segment; solar term…
• 食shíto eat; food; animal feed

Example sentences

• 我在节食。
  I'm on a diet.
• 她在节食。
  She is on a diet.
• 她在节食中。
  She is on a diet.
• 我想你应该节食了。
  Wǒ xiǎng nǐ yīnggāi jiéshí le.
  I think you'd better go on a diet.
• 明天，我开始节食。
  Tomorrow, I start the diet.
• 这个季节食物很容易变坏。
  Zhège jìjié shíwù hěn róngyì biànhuài.
  Food goes bad easily in this season.

Words containing 节食

• 缩衣节食suō yī jié shíto economize on clothes and food; to scrimp and save (idiom)

Sounds the same

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

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