食

#1513 by frequency

shí

to eat; food; animal feed; eclipse

sì

to feed (a person or animal)

Examples

民以食为天。

Food is what matters to people.

他很少食言。

He seldom breaks his promise.

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Definitions adapted from CC-CEDICT (CC BY-SA 4.0, modified). Example sentences from Tatoeba (CC BY 2.0 FR). Frequency ranks from the BCC corpus. Full credits on the Attributions page.