食
shísì HSK2

eat

食 shí frequency
eat noun
to consume food or take in sustenance

这种小鸟主要食田里的害虫。

zhè zhǒng xiǎo​niǎo zhǔ​yào shí tián lǐ de hài​chóng.

This bird mainly feeds on pests in the fields.

eclipse noun
the total or partial obscuring of a celestial body by another

日食是一种罕见的天文现象。

rì shí shì yī zhǒng hǎn​jiàn de tiān​wén xiàn​xiàng.

A solar eclipse is a rare astronomical phenomenon.

feed noun
fodder or food intended for animals

这些猪食是用谷物做的。

zhè​xiē zhū​shí shì yòng gǔ​wù zuò de.

This pig feed is made from grain.

food noun
edible substances or provisions for humans

我们需要准备一些零食。

wǒ​men xū​yào zhǔn​bèi yī​xiē líng​shí.

We need to prepare some snacks.

食 sì
feed verb
to feed (a person or animal)

饲养员正忙着在马厩里食马。

sì​yǎng​yuán zhèng máng zhe zài mǎ​jiù lǐ sì mǎ.

The keeper is busy feeding the horses in the stable.

Frequency
Character
Written text
671st most common 300.3 per million
Movie subtitles
816th most common 153.0 per million appears in 49% of films
Word
Movie subtitles
29.4 per million appears in 10% of films
Written text
87.2 per million

Details
HSK 2.0
Level 5
HSK 3.0
Level 2
Strokes
9
Unicode
U+98DF

Sources
Definitions
CC-CEDICT
Frequency data
MTSU Chinese text computingSUBTLEX-CHBCC Corpus (BLCU)