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食用

shí yòng

HSK 3.0 level 5 2-character word

食用 (shí yòng) means "to eat; to consume; edible". It is an HSK 3.0 level 5 word, and was not on the old six-level HSK list.

What 食用 means

1. to eat; to consume
2. edible

The characters in 食用

• 食shíto eat; food; animal feed
• 用yòngto use; to make use of; to employ; (coverb) with; using; to need…

Example sentences

• 旧约书中禁止食用贝类等有壳的水生动物。
  Jiùyuē shū zhōng jìnzhǐ shíyòng bèilèi děng yǒu qiào de shuǐshēng dòngwù.
  The Old Testament forbids eating shellfish.
• 真的不敢相信你在吃医生叮嘱不要食用的东西。
  Zhēn de bù gǎn xiāngxìn nǐ zài chī yīshēng dīngzhǔ bù yào shíyòng de dōngxi.
  I can't believe you are eating something the doctor has told you repeatedly you shouldn't eat.
• 阿嗄拉咭是源自非洲的巴西食品，是豇豆面团、洋葱和盐，经棕榈油炸，与虾和辣酱一起食用的食品。
  ā á lā jī shì yuánzì Fēizhōu de Bāxī shípǐn, shì jiāngdòu miàntuán, yángcōng hé yán, jīng zōnglǘyóu zhá, yǔ há hé là jiàng yīqǐ shíyòng de shípǐn.
  Acaraje, a Brazilian food from Africa, is a ball of caupi bean dough, onions, and salt, fried in palm oil and served with shrimp and a spicy sauce.

Words starting with 食用

• 食用油shí yòng yóucooking oil

Sounds the same

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

• 实用to apply in practice; practical; functional; pragmatic; applied (science)

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• The four tones and the neutral tone, to read shí yòng correctly.
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