The Chinese word for food is
食品

shí pǐn

Chinese Definition

food
1. 名词. 食物
Components
食
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
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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)
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16. (Inland Min) Alternative form of 饁 (-, t=to eat)
^酈 ^食yì-其jī (Lì Yìjī) - Li Yiji (an advisor to Liu Bang)
品
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 品 and their definitions

食物
1. n. food
2. usage. There is no exact equivalent for English food in Chinese. The most generic term for food is 料理.

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.