The Chinese word for pet food is
宠物食品
chǒng wù shí pǐnChinese Definition
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. | |
宠 | |
1. Simplified form of 寵 | |
物 | |
1. thing, matter | |
物體 - object | |
動物 - animal lit. moving thing | |
2. all of the outside world, excluding oneself | |
3. substance, content | |
4. Short for 物理 (physics) | |
5. to choose, to select | |
6. to seek, to look for | |
物色 - to seek out, to scout out | |
7. (Teochew) to do | |
家己 物 (ga1 gi7 muêh8, MN-T) - do it by oneself | |
8. (obsolete) Alternative form of 勿 | |
9. (Min Nan) Alternative form of 乜 (what) | |
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 | |
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) | |
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 |
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