Dictionary › 饮食

饮食

yǐn shí

Old HSK 6 HSK 3.0 level 5 2-character word Traditional 飲食

饮食 (yǐn shí) means "eating and drinking". It is an HSK 3.0 level 5 word, and was HSK 6 in the old six-level list.

What 饮食 means

1. eating and drinking
2. food and drink; diet

The characters in 饮食

• 饮yǐnto drink
• 食shíto eat; food; animal feed

Example sentences

• 我要改变我的饮食吗？
  Wǒ yào gǎibiàn wǒ de yǐnshí ma?
  Do I have to change my diet?
• 我不喜欢脂肪的饮食。
  Wǒ bù xǐhuan zhīfáng de yǐnshí.
  I don't like a fat diet.
• 我不喜欢油腻的饮食。
  I don't like a fat diet.
• 各国有不同的饮食习惯。
  Eating habits differ from country to country.
• 蔬果对平衡饮食必不可少。
  Shūguǒ duì pínghéng yǐnshí bìbùkěshǎo.
  Fruits and vegetables are essential to a balanced diet.
• 重要的是要遵循严格的饮食控制。
  Zhòngyào de shì yào zūnxún yángé de yǐnshí kòngzhì.
  It's important to follow a strict diet.

Words starting with 饮食

• 饮食疗养yǐn shí liáo yǎngdiet

Words containing 饮食

• 生酮饮食shēng tóng yǐn shíketogenic diet
• 无麸质饮食wú fū zhì yǐn shígluten-free diet

Where 饮食 is taught

In the GraphChinese course it is part of HSK 6 Vocabulary · yǐn (HSK 6), each one a topic in the dependency graph of HSK 1–6 that opens only once its prerequisites are solid.

Go deeper

• Every HSK 6 word, with the rest of its level.
• The four tones and the neutral tone, to read yǐn shí correctly.
• Look up another word in the free dictionary.