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食指

shí zhǐ

2-character word

What 食指 means

1. index finger
2. literarymouths to feed

The characters in 食指

• 食shíto eat; food; animal feed
• 指zhǐfinger; to point at or to; to indicate or refer to

Example sentences

• 人的手有五个手指: 拇指、食指、中指、无名指和小指。
  Rén de shǒu yǒu wǔ gè shǒuzhǐ: mǔzhǐ, shízhǐ, zhōngzhǐ, wúmíngzhǐ hé xiǎozhǐ.
  The hand has five fingers: the thumb, the index finger, the middle finger, the ring finger, and the pinky.

Words starting with 食指

• 食指大动shí zhǐ dà dòng(idiom) to be excited to dig into the delicious food