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食堂

shí táng

HSK 3.0 level 4 2-character word Measure word 个、间

食堂 (shí táng) means "dining hall; cafeteria". It is an HSK 3.0 level 4 word, and was not on the old six-level HSK list.

What 食堂 means

1. dining hall; cafeteria

The characters in 食堂

• 食shíto eat; food; animal feed
• 堂táng(main) hall; large room for a specific purpose; relationship between cousins etc on the…

Example sentences

• 食堂开了吗？
  Is the canteen open yet?
• 食堂怎么走？
  Which way is the canteen?
• 我是在食堂吃的饭。
  Wǒ shì zài shítáng chī de fàn.
  I ate in the canteen.
• 可惜大学食堂没有无花果饼干。
  Kěxī dàxué shítáng méiyǒu wúhuāguǒ bǐnggān.
  It's too bad the college dining hall doesn't have fig cookies.
• 很多公立学校的食堂都很黑心。
  Many public school cafeterias are unscrupulous.

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