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  sik6 zi6   jyutping
  shi2 si4   pinyin
[] sik6 | [] shi2
[1] [v] eat; have a meal | [syn]
[2] [n] food; meal; (poultry) feed
[3] [n] sth edible; sth used for cooking
[4] [n] eclipse (usu )

[] zi6 | [] si4
[v] [literary] feed

Default PoS: verb Additional PoS: noun
Stroke count: 9
Level: 1
Radical: (#184)

This character is used in both Cantonese and Mandarin/Standard written Chinese.

This word has been viewed 57556 times since 30th Oct 2012, was added by sheik on 18th Mar 2007 21:22 and last edited on 27th Jun 2013 02:06

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detail  sik6 wun2 min6 faan2 wun2 dai2   = Go back upon somebody. Play somebody false. Betray a friend. (lit. to eat from a bowl and then turn it over)
detail  loeng4 sik6 hyun3  liang2 shi2 quan2 = food stamp or coupon
detail  sik6 ban2  shi2 pin3 = food
detail  jat6 sik6  ri4 shi2 = solar eclipse
detail  jyut6 sik6  yue4 shi2 = lunar eclipse
detail  sik6 je5   = to eat something
detail  je5 sik6   = food
detail  sik6 mat6  shi2 wu4 = food; foodstuff
detail  jam2 sik6  yin3 shi2 = food and drink; to eat and drink
detail  sik6 faan6   = to have a meal
See all 283 compounds (CantoDict reports 297 compounds in total, but some may be Common Formations)

Showing all 75 examples containing 食
detail audio 餐廳好好
The food at that restaurant is excellent!
detail audio 牛肉定係豬肉
Do you want to eat beef or pork?
detail audio 鍾意花生
Do you like to eat peanuts?
detail audio 定係食飯
Do you want to eat noodles or rice?
detail audio
I don't eat meat. I am a vegetarian.
detail audio 今日早餐
I haven't eaten breakfast yet today
detail audio 今日唔會早餐
Today I'm not going to eat breakfast
detail audio 太多嘢食
Too much food!
[If it is obvious that food is being talked about, the more general 太多嘢喇! would probably be preferred.]
detail audio 今晚
What are the side dishes for dinner?
detail audio 上星期朋友一齊晚飯
Last Sunday, I had dinner with my friends together.
detail audio 食飯洗手
One should wash one's hands before having a meal.
detail 食完先至
I'll have dinner first and then sort it out!
[Lit. eat-finish-rice only-then do. Std. Chinese: 吃完飯再計算吧]
detail 食飯定食
Do you want to eat rice or noodles?
[Lit. you want eat rice or eat noodle [particle]?]
detail 食飽
I'm full!
detail 蘋果鐘意先至
I like to peel apples before eating them.
[Lit. apples, I like peel [perfective zo2] skin only-then eat.]
detail 我唔知
I don't know what to eat.
detail 一點灣仔食晏
I have lunch in Wanchai at 1:00 p.m.
["People + time + place + action" is one of the most common sentence patterns in Cantonese.]
detail audio 呢排
I've recently been eating less.
detail audio 鍾意薯條
I like to eat french fries
detail audio 雲吞麵
Do you want to eat a bowl of wonton noodles?
detail audio 花生
I cannot eat peanuts.
detail 一種食物, 取自動物
Meat is a type of food, it comes from animals.
detail audio 乜都鍾意
I like to eat everything.
[literally: "I like to eat whatever"]
detail audio 不如雞記早餐!
Let's go to KFC have a breakfast.
detail audio 硬係過籠
You always eat too much food!
detail audio 我哋屋企好多嘢食
We have so much nice food in the house.
detail 蛋糕兩份
I bought a piece of cake for both of us to share
detail 醒胃
Sour food improves one's appetite.
detail audio 食咗飯未呀
Have you eaten yet?
[This is also commonly used as a greeting akin to "how are you"?]
detail 食飽
Feel sleepy when satiated.
[Could be said by a person who has eaten too much. see also: 飯氣攻心]
detail 中國人筷子食飯
Chinese people are [people who] use chopsticks to have their meals.
["揸" here is actually "to hold"]
detail 食飯享受
Having a meal is a joy.
detail 阿媽今晚煮飯自己
Mum is not going to cook tongiht, so we/I have to have dinner on our/my own.
[Usually mother cooks at home every night. If she does not cook, it implies that she is out at night, so the entire family has to think about the dinner stuff.]
detail 幾時食飯
When do we go having meal?
detail 唔好呢啲防腐劑食物
Don't buy food with preservatives!
[Lit. Don't buy these have preservatives (of) food]
detail 食完香蕉之後
Throw away the peel after you've finished the banana.
[Lit. eat-finish banana afterwards, need throw-[particle used in imperatives] [counter] banana-skin. Classifier 塊 is optional if the object (蕉皮) consists of two characters. But 塊 would be mandatory if followed by single character 皮. ]
detail 食水就要
If you want to have some fruit you need to pick it [from the tree].
[Lit. you want eat fruit then pick it [particle]]
detail 蘋果㓟皮先至
Peel the apple before eating it.
detail 搵日一齊食飯
Let's have lunch together some day.
[The Cantonese word order 搵日 (some day) 一齊 (together) 食飯 (have lunch) 啦 (let's) is the exact opposite of the English version.]
detail 前日佢哋一齊食咗
They took their meal twice together the day before yesterday.
[Here, 餐 is [i]not[/i] a classifier that modifies the noun 飯. It is a verb measure that quantifies the verb 食.]
detail 乜嘢鍾意
She likes to eat any kind of fish.
[In this sentence, 乜嘢都 somehow becomes "any kind of". ]
detail audio 我哋食藥嗰陣時小心可能副作用
When taking medication, we have to be careful; there may be some side-effects.
detail audio 成日食嘢唔做嘢搏炒係咪?
You're forever eating and not doing work; are you trying to get fired?
detail audio 食咗腐敗食物容易生病
You are liable to get sick by eating putrid food.
detail audio 眼闊肚窄重有好多慢慢
Don't be so greedy, there's still a lot of food; eat slower!
detail 今晚咁多梗係食唔晒
There's so much food tonight; of course I can't finish the lot.
detail audio 小朋友唔准甜品
Children who don't eat their vegetables aren't allowed to eat dessert.
detail 好食七名食埋
So tasty that it is finger licking good.
detail audio 車站入閘車廂嚴禁飲食
Eating or drinking is not allowed on trains, or in the paid areas of stations.
[MTR announcement]
detail 注意地鐵車廂嚴禁飲食保持車廂清潔衛生多謝合作
Please remember. No eating or drinking on MTR trains. Help us keep them fresh, clean and tidy. Thank you!
[http://www.cantonese.sheik.co.uk/phorum/read.php?14,132183 It's supposed to be a MTR announcement, but the wordings are not exactly the same.]
detail 蘋果通常㓟皮
I usually eat apples without peeling its skin.
detail BB快啲背囊裡面口水肩BB.
The baby needs to eat。 Quickly take the bib from the backpack and put it over her。
[Discussion on usage of 將: http://www.cantonese.sheik.co.uk/phorum/read.php?7,120703]
detail 𢱢蘋果
Take and eat this slice of apple
detail 我係非常贊同辛苦搵嚟自在食講法,何必委屈自己
I agree with the saying that one should work hard and play hard. Why treat yourself so badly?
detail 老細我哋依牙鬆槓
The treat from my boss was wonderful and the food was great!
detail 𠵇𠺫
He is very particular about food.
detail audio 點解次次波餅
I didn't do anything to piss you off. Why are you throwing/kicking/[whatever action is appropriate] the ball at my body every time?
[Alternative translation: There's no grudge between us, why are you hitting me with the balls that you return?]
detail audio 真係癩蛤蟆想食天鵝肉
You are going after a girl who is way too good for you.
detail audio 食咗草龍好唱口
You are happily singing non-stop. Are you on drugs?
detail 老虎竟然識食紅蘿蔔真係咄咄怪事
Tigers that eat carrots? How strange is that?!
detail 朝早稀冧冧晏晝
The bowl of porridge you had this morning was so watery. You will be hungry before noon.
detail 嘢食
Find a mesh cover to cover the food.
detail 生果一種有益健康食物
Fresh fruit is a kind of food that's beneficial to health.
detail 一日早啲釘蓋
You smoke ten packs of cigarettes a day, (you) got a death wish?
[Lit: You smoke ten packs of cigarettes a day, (you) want to die earlier?]
detail 邊度有得正宗意大利
Where can (one) finds authentic Italian food?
[[Lit.] where can/have authentic Italian food to be eaten?]
detail 快脆有得
Food will be ready soon. [Lit.] very soon, (food will be done and) available to be eaten.
detail 嗱嗱聲然後食飯
You should hurry up and finish your work, so that you can have your meal!
detail 佢哋?呃鬼食豆腐
They got married! You're kidding!
detail 突然間咁多芒果覺得𠺫𠵇
I think he's very strange, suddenly eating all those mangoes like that.
[Lit. suddenly eat so many mangoes, I think he very strange.]
detail 公仔麵
I'm fed up with the eating of instant noodles.
[Very often, the same verb (食) has to be used twice when there are both an object (公仔麵) and an extent particle (到) in a sentence. ]
detail 食力唔好
Sandy road surface doesn't provide much friction. Don't run too fast.
detail 自從新聞報道椰子又盛, 一帶食肆食住條水, 推出各種各樣椰子有關小食
Ever since the news reported that coconuts were good and all, the entire stretch of eateries here seize the opportunity to serve snacks made from coconuts.
[http://www.cantonese.sheik.co.uk/phorum/read.php?14,137972,137975#msg-137975]
detail 四月忽然間落場大雪真係五月」!
It suddenly snowed during the end of April. "Until it's time to eat Dragon Boat Festival's dumplings, don't put away your warm clothes," as they say!
[未食五月粽寒衣唔入籠 is a Cantonese saying. There are variations used by Mandarin and other dialects.]
detail 年卅晚家人喺度𨅝檯腳, 點知咁啱男朋友預訂情人節喺呢度燭光晚餐
I had my reunion dinner with my family here on Chinese New Year's Eve. Little did I know that my boyfriend made a reservation to have our candlelight dinner in this same place on Valentine's day.
detail 呢個罄竹難書蓮子
This man was responsible for many countless wrong doings. We let him off easy by putting a bullet in him.

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