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食材

shí cái

2-character word

What 食材 means

1. (food) ingredient

The characters in 食材

• 食shíto eat; food; animal feed
• 材cáimaterial; timber; ability

Example sentences

• 土豆是最常见的食材之一。
  Potatoes are one of the most common foodstuffs.
• 他又往锅里加了一种食材。
  He added another ingredient to the pot.

Sounds the same

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

• 识才to recognize talent

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