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美食

měishí

delicious food

HSK 3 · Topic “Food and drinks”
A bowl of dumplings
Memory picture

Characters in this word

美 měi

Strokes
9
Radical
羊 — sheep, goat
Made of
羊 sheep, goat 大 big, great, vast, high, deep
How it's built
Ideograph — the meaning is built from its parts

食 shí

Strokes
9
Radical
食 — food
How it's built
Pictograph — a drawing of the thing
More about the character 食

Example phrases

  • 我爱美食。 Wǒ ài měishí. I love delicious food.
  • 这里美食多。 Zhèlǐ měishí duō. There is lots of delicious food here.
  • 美食真好吃。 Měishí zhēn hǎochī. Delicious food is really tasty.

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