HSK 6 · Food

饮食 yǐnshí “diet” in Chinese

Traditional 飲食

What 饮食 means

  1. diet
  2. food and drink
  3. eating and drinking

How to say 饮食

  • Pitch chart of the third tone: dips low then rises, 2 to 1 to 4 on the five-level scale饮yǐn3rd tone, dipping
  • Pitch chart of the second tone: rises from mid to high, 3 to 5 on the five-level scale食shí2nd tone, rising

饮食 in a sentence

  1. 我要改变我的饮食吗？

    Wǒ yào gǎibiàn wǒ de yǐnshí ma?

    Do I need to change my diet?

    Sentence #342709 from Tatoeba · converted to simplified characters · translation adapted

  2. 蔬果对平衡饮食必不可少。

    Shūguǒ duì pínghéng yǐnshí bìbùkěshǎo.

    Fruits and vegetables are essential to a balanced diet.

    Sentence #389929 from Tatoeba · translation adapted

  3. 各国有不同的饮食习惯。

    Gèguó yǒu bùtóng de yǐnshí xíguàn.

    Eating habits differ from country to country.

    Sentence #798141 from Tatoeba · converted to simplified characters

How 饮食 is built

Each colour is one part of the character. Parts repeat across thousands of characters, so learning them makes new words easier. See all 214 in our radicals chart.

The character 饮 (yǐn) with each of its parts in a different colour
饮yǐnto drink
  • 饣eat form of 食 · shíMeaning part
  • 欠yawn · qiànSound part

饣 hints at the meaning (eat); 欠 (qiàn) hints at the sound. Compare it with yǐn.

The character 食 (shi) with each of its parts in a different colour
食shíto eat
  • 人person · rén
  • 良good · liáng

How to write 饮食

饮 7 strokes · 食 9 strokes

Watch the order, then press Try writing it and draw each stroke in the grid. Each stroke is checked as you go.

饮食 (yǐnshí) stroke order chart: each stroke of the characters in the order you write them
Stroke order chart for 饮食 (yǐnshí). Red marks the next stroke, so you can copy it onto paper one step at a time.

Words related to 饮食

Words with 饮

饮料yǐnliào · beverage

Words with 食

粮食liángshi · grain零食língshí · between-meal nibbles食物shíwù · food素食sùshí · vegetarian food废寝忘食fèiqǐnwàngshí · so absorbed one forgets to eat and sleep

More words: Food & Dining

冰激凌bīngjīlíng · ice cream调料tiáoliào · seasoning馅儿xiànr · filling腥xīng · fishy (smell or taste)酗酒xùjiǔ · to drink heavily油腻yóunì · greasy粥zhōu · porridge滋味zīwèi · taste

FAQs

饮食 (yǐnshí) means “diet” or “food and drink”. It is an HSK 6 word.
Say it yǐnshí: yǐn with a 3rd tone, then shí with a 2nd tone. Press Listen at the top of this page to hear it, or Slowly to hear each tone clearly.
In Traditional characters, used in Taiwan and Hong Kong, 饮食 is written 飲食. The pronunciation is the same.
Add a Chinese (Simplified) pinyin keyboard to your phone or computer, type yinshi with no tone marks or spaces, then choose 饮食 from the suggestions. Typing yinshi into this dictionary’s search box finds it too.
饮食 is an HSK 6 word in the HSK 2.0 word lists.

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Sources: meaning and pinyin checked by a native Mandarin teacher against the official HSK lists. Extra meanings from CC-CEDICT (CC BY-SA 4.0). Example sentences from Tatoeba (CC BY 2.0 FR). Character parts and stroke order from Make Me a Hanzi.