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The Chinese word for baby food is
儿童食品

ér tóng shí pǐn



baby food

Chinese Definition


baby food
     1. 婴儿食品
Components
食品
     1. n. food; foodstuff
           加工 食品 - processed food
           罐裝 食品 - canned food
           轉基因 食品 - genetically modified food
           焙烤 食品 - baked goods
           醃製 食品 - cured foods
           海產 食品 - seafood
           不准 帶 入 食品 和 飲料。 - No food or drinks inside.
           食品 安全,和諧 萬家。 - Safe food, safe community.
     2. usage. There is no exact equivalent for English food in Chinese. The most generic term for food is 料理.
     1. Simplified form of 兒
     2. usage. May be used to specially write erhua (or the rhotic sound) in traditional Chinese, in contrast with child.
     3. Variant of 人
     1. child
           兒童 - child
           童子 - boy
           童年 - childhood
           這 家 商店 童鞋 有 現貨。 - The store had children's shoes in stock.
           那 個 病童 的 情況 今天 看起來 比 昨天 更 不妙。 - The sick child looks still worse today than yesterday.
     2. young servant; servant boy
           門童 - doorman
           書童 - page boy
           球童 - caddie
     3. (Min, dialectal Mandarin, dialectal Wu) shaman
     4. virgin
     5. bare; exposed
           童山 - bare hill
           ^童 ^貫 - Tong Guan (Song dynasty court eunuch)
     6. 12th tetragram of the Taixuanjing; "youthfulness" (?)
     1. (literary or Cantonese, Hakka) to eat; to have a meal; to take in
           你 食 咗 飯 未 呀? - Have you eaten yet?
           中國人 係 揸 筷子 食飯 嘅。 - Chinese people use chopsticks to eat with.
           上 星sing1期kei4日 我 同 啲 朋友 一齊 食 晚飯。 - Last Sunday, I ate dinner together with my friends.
     2. (dialectal Cantonese, Hakka) to drink
     3. (Cantonese, Hakka, Min) to smoke
           食煙 - sik6 jin1 - to smoke, C
     4. (Cantonese, board games) to capture
           玩 盲棋kei4-2 嘅 時候,車geoi1 可以 食 馬、炮paau3、士、象、卒zeot1。 - When playing blind chess, a rook can capture knights, cannons, advisors, bishops or pawns.
     5. (Cantonese, mahjong) Short for 食糊, gloss=to win
     6. (Cantonese, figuratively) to receive; to accept; to absorb
           硬食 - ngaang6 sik6 - , C
     7. (Cantonese) to hit on; to flirt
           食女 - sik6 neoi5-2 - , C
     8. =====Usage notes=====
     9. (Coastal Min) to eat; to have a meal
           食飯 (chia̍h-pn̄g) - to eat rice; to have a meal, MN
           汝 食 飽 未? (Lí chia̍h pá bōe?) - Have you eaten yet?, MN
     10. (Coastal Min) to drink
           食茶 (ziah8 tê5) - to drink tea, MN-T
           食 燒酒 (chia̍h sio-chiú) - to drink rice wine, MN
     11. (Coastal Min) to take in; to inhale
           食薰 (chia̍h-hun) - to inhale smoke; to smoke, MN
     12. (Hokkien, Teochew) to embezzle (money)
           食鐳lui (chia̍h-lui) - to embezzle money, MN
     13. (Hokkien, mahjong) to chow
     14. (Teochew, Penang Hokkien) cuisine
           Synonyms: 菜
           廣東 食 ((rftranslit, zhx-teo) - Guangdong food, MN-T)
     15. =====Usage notes=====
     16. (Inland Min) Alternative form of 饁 (-, t=to eat)
           ^酈 ^食yì-其jī (Lì Yìjī) - Li Yiji (an advisor to Liu Bang)
     1. article; item; product; commodity
           商品 - merchandise
           食品 - foodstuff
     2. personality; character
     3. grade; level; rank; class
     4. (musical instrument, of a string instrument) fret
     5. to taste



Translations for and their definitions

嬰兒食品
     1. n. baby food


婴儿食品
     1. Simplified form of 嬰兒食品


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Pronunciation


ér tóng shí pǐn

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