Sentence #633875 from Tatoeba · converted to simplified characters · translation adapted
How 粮食 is built
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粮liánggrain
米rice · mǐMeaning part
良good · liángSound part
米 hints at the meaning (rice); 良 (liáng) hints at the sound. Compare it with liáng.
食shito eat
人person · rén
良good · liáng
How to write 粮食
粮 13 strokes · 食 9 strokes
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Stroke order chart for 粮食 (liángshi). Red marks the next stroke, so you can copy it onto paper one step at a time.
粮食 (liángshi) means “grain” or “food (crops)”. It is an HSK 5 word.
Say it liángshi: liáng with a 2nd tone, then shi with a neutral 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, 粮食 is written 糧食. The pronunciation is the same.
Use 种 (zhǒng). For example, one grain is 一种粮食 (yì zhǒng liángshi).
Add a Chinese (Simplified) pinyin keyboard to your phone or computer, type liangshi with no tone marks or spaces, then choose 粮食 from the suggestions. Typing liangshi into this dictionary’s search box finds it too.
粮食 is an HSK 5 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.
粮liáng2nd tone, rising
食shineutral tone, light and short
