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食物

shí wù 2–4

food

HSK level
HSK 2
HSK 2.0 level 5 · HSK 3.0 level 2
Characters
2
食 · 物
Syllables
2
shí wù
Frequency
Common
corpus count 1,768

Part of speech: n

Character by character

  • 食shí9 strokesHSK 2eat; meal; food; Kangxi radical 184
  • 物wù8 strokesHSK 2thing, substance, creature

Each character links to its stroke order page with a tracing and a writing exercise.

Example sentences

  • 它是食物。

    Tā shì shí wù

    It's food.

  • 把你的食物给我。

    Bǎ nǐ de shí wù gěi wǒ

    Give me your food.

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Words with the same characters

These words share at least one character with 食物. Reading them together is how the character starts to stick — the same characters in a different context.

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