Chinese

美食

/meɪ̯²¹⁴⁻²¹ ʂɻ̩³⁵/
delicious food; fine cuisine; scrumptious dishes; culinary delights
  • HSK 3
  • TOCFL 6

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  • characterChinese美 “beautiful; pretty; attractive; good-looking”
    • ideaChinese羊 “caprid (e.g. sheep, goat, antelope, etc.) (Classifier: 隻／只 m c)”
    • ideaChinese大 “of great size; big; large; huge”
  • characterChinese食 “to eat; to have a meal; to take in”
    • ideaChinese亼 “mouth”
      • ideaChinese入 “to enter; to go into”
      • ideaChinese一 “one”
    • ideaChinese皀 “Prepared food, a vessel full of food (as in 即 and 既, in which is simplified)”

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