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衣食住行

yī shí zhù xíng

HSK 3.0 level 6 4-character word

衣食住行 (yī shí zhù xíng) means "clothing, food, housing and transport (idiom); people's basic needs". It is an HSK 3.0 level 6 word, and was not on the old six-level HSK list.

What 衣食住行 means

1. (lit.) clothing, food, housing and transportation (idiom)
2. (fig.) people's basic needs

The characters in 衣食住行

• 衣yīclothes; Kangxi radical 145
• 食shíto eat; food; animal feed
• 住zhùto live; to reside; to stay; to stop; to cease…
• 行xíng(bound form) to walk; to go; to travel; (literary) trip; journey; visit…

Example sentences

• 孩子们的衣食住行靠的是他们的父母。
  Háizimen de yīshízhùxíng kào de shì tāmen de fùmǔ.
  Children depend on their parents for food, clothing and shelter.

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