食
shísìyì HSK2

eat

食 shí frequency
food noun
food; a meal; animal feed; grain; things to eat

牛以草为主食。

niú yǐ cǎo wéi​zhǔ shí.

Cattle feed mostly on grass.

to eat verb
to eat; to consume; to have a meal

他以辐射为食。

tā yǐ fú​shè wèi shí.

He feeds on radiation.

eclipse noun
(bound form) eclipse of the sun or moon
surname
a Chinese surname
Radical 184
the 184th of the 214 Kangxi radicals (food radical)
to break
to break or go back on (one's word), as in 食言 shí​yán
食 sì
to feed
(literary) to feed a person or animal; to give food to others
食 yì
[name]
used in historical names, such as 郦食其 lì​yì​jī

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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
Frequency data
MTSU Chinese text computingSUBTLEX-CHBCC Corpus (BLCU)