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零食

líng shí

Old HSK 5 HSK 3.0 level 4 2-character word

零食 (líng shí) means "between-meal nibbles". It is an HSK 3.0 level 4 word, and was HSK 5 in the old six-level list.

What 零食 means

1. snack; nibbles

The characters in 零食

• 零língzero; nought; zero sign
• 食shíto eat; food; animal feed

Example sentences

• 帮我买点零食吧。
  Bāng wǒ mǎi diǎn língshí ba.
  Buy me a snack.
• 我以前从不吃零食。
  I never used to eat snacks.
• 汤姆带了一些零食。
  Tom brought some snacks.
• 雅尼买了些零食给我们。
  Yanni got us some snacks.
• 爆米花是我最喜欢的零食。
  Bàomǐhuā shì wǒ zuì xǐhuan de língshí.
  Popcorn is my favorite snack.
• 炸肉丸不是一种健康的零食。
  A frikandel is not a healthy snack.

Sounds the same

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

• 零时midnight; zero hour
• 灵石see 灵石县

Where 零食 is taught

In the GraphChinese course it is part of Household, Kitchen & Daily Life (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 líng shí correctly.
• Look up another word in the free dictionary.