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美食

měi shí 3–2

culinary delicacy; fine food; gourmet food

HSK level
HSK 3
HSK 3.0 level 3
Characters
2
美 · 食
Syllables
2
měi shí
Frequency
Less common
corpus count 6,046

Part of speech: n

Character by character

  • 美měi9 strokesHSK 3beautiful, pretty; pleasing
  • 食shí9 strokesHSK 2eat; meal; food; Kangxi radical 184

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Words with the same characters

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

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