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食物

shí wù

Old HSK 5 HSK 3.0 level 4 2-character word

食物 (shí wù) means "food". It is an HSK 3.0 level 4 word, and was HSK 5 in the old six-level list.

What 食物 means

1. food

The characters in 食物

• 食shíto eat; food; animal feed
• 物wù(bound form) thing; (literary) the outside world as distinct from oneself…

Example sentences

• 它是食物。
  It's food.
• 请自带食物。
  Qǐng zìdài shíwù.
  Please bring your own food.
• 食物是冷的。
  The food is cold.
• 食物怎么样？
  How was the food?
• 汤姆要食物。
  Tom asked for food.
• 这食物不卫生。
  Zhè shíwù bù wèishēng.
  This food is unhealthy.

Words starting with 食物

• 食物中毒shí wù zhòng dúfood poisoning
• 食物链shí wù liànfood chain
• 食物及药品管理局shí wù jí yào pǐn guǎn lǐ júUS Food and Drug Administration authority (FDA)

Words containing 食物

• 固体食物gù tǐ shí wùsolid foods; solids

Sounds the same

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

• 实物material object; concrete object; original object
• 实务practice (customary action, as opposed to theory); practical
• 拾物picked up items (i.e. lost property)

Where 食物 is taught

In the GraphChinese course it is part of Attitude, Light Food & Contempt (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 shí wù correctly.
• Look up another word in the free dictionary.