食 shí
- Strokes
- 9
- Radical
- 食 — food
- How it's built
- Pictograph — a drawing of the thing
食物
shíwù
food
Characters in this word
物 wù
- Strokes
- 8
- Radical
- 牛 — ox, cow, bull
- Made of
- 牛 ox, cow, bull 勿 must not, do not
- How it's built
- Phono-semantic — one part hints at the meaning, another at the sound
Example phrases
- 食物很好吃。 Shíwù hěn hǎochī. The food is very tasty.
- 我买食物。 Wǒ mǎi shíwù. I buy food.
- 这里有食物。 Zhèlǐ yǒu shíwù. There is food here.