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衣食 food and clothing;
食色 food and sex;
膳食，伙食 board, the meals;
食用 [shi2yong4]↓;
食堂 dining room;
食少量繁 lot of work and scanty meals;
食前方丈(AC) have food spread out ten feet square--live in luxury.
(2) (*[si4]) 食不厭精 (AC) rice could never be white enough (of Confucius);
有酒食，先生饌 when there's food and drink, it is served to the master.
(3) A radical, 81B.
(4) A surname.
食其肉而寢其皮 want to eat his flesh and sleep on his hide--swear revenge;
食玉炊桂 (LL) food as expensive as jade and fuel as expensive as cassia--extremely high cost of living;
oft. fig., to digest: 食古不化 read ancient teachings without digesting them--be slave to the ancients;
食言， [shi2yan2]1↓.
(2) To live on: 自食其力 live by one's own labor;
食租衣稅 (of officials) live on rents;
hold a feudal benefice: 食祿，食邑，食土，食地 [shi2lu4], [shi2yi4], [shi2tu3], [shi2di4]↓.
(3) Sometimes equivalent to drink: 食酒 (AC) drink wine.
(4) (*[si4], ＝飼) To feed (dog, person).
To eclipse: 日食，月食 eclipse of the sun, moon (also wr. 蝕).
2.食蟲類 [shi2chong2lei4], n., Insectivora.
3.食單 [shi2dan1], n., menu.
4.食道 [shi2dao4], n., (1) oesophagus, alimentary canal; (2) proper method of eating.
5.食地 [shi2di4], n., fief town, see [shi2yi4]↓.
6.食俸 [shi2feng4], n., formerly, salary.
7.食復 [shi2fu2], n., relapse of patient owing to wrong food.
8.食管 [shi2guan3], n., (physiol.) the oesophagus.
9.食盒 [shi2he2], n., (1) food casket, usu. lacquered; (2) bridal caskets of food and clothing, etc. paraded on streets.
10.食貨 [shi2huo4], n., food and commerce, economic goods.
11.食火雞 [shi2huo3ji1], n., (zoo.) the cassowary, Casuaris, an ostrich-like bird.
12.食積 [shi2ji1], n., indigestion.
13.食忌 [shi2ji4], n., taboos in food.
14.食茱萸 [shi2zhu1yU2], n., a tree whose fruit is edible, Zanthoxylum ailanthoides.
15.食具 [shi2jU4], n., table service (bowls, etc.).
16.食指 [shi2zhi3], n., (1) the index finger; (2) 食指浩繁 many mouths to feed.
17.食客 [shi2ke4], n., (Warring Kingdoms) scholars and swordsmen retained by rich, powerful family.
18.食量 [shi2liang4], n.,eating capacity.
19.食糧 [shi2liang2], n., foodstuffs, army rations.
20.食料 [shi2liao4], n., feed for horses, etc.
21.食祿 [shi2lu4], n., formerly, official's salary.
22.食品 [shi2pin3], n., eatables in gen.
23.食譜 [shi2pu3], n., menu, recipe.
24.食肉 [shi2rou4], adj., carnivorous; 食肉獸 carnivorous animal.
25.食嗓 [shi2](')[sang3], n., (coll.) the alimentary canal.
26.食土 [shi2tu3], n., fief town.
27.食物 [shi2wu4], n., food in gen.
28.食言 [shi2yan2]1, v.i., to “eat one's words”--fail to live up to promise.
29.食鹽 [shi2yan2]2, n., table or kitchen salt.
30.食邑 [shi2yi4], n, fief town.
31.食蟻獸 [shi2yi3shou4], n., (zoo.) the anteater.
32.食慾 [shi2yU4], n., appetite.
33.食用 [shi2yong4], n., living expenses.