伙食
huǒ shí
Pinyin

Definition

伙食
 - 
huǒ shí
  1. food
  2. meals

Character Decomposition

Related Words (20)

家伙
jiā huo
  1. 1 variant: 家伙 jiā huo
美食
měi shí
  1. 1 culinary delicacy
  2. 2 fine food
  3. 3 gourmet food
零食
líng shí
  1. 1 between-meal nibbles
  2. 2 snacks
食
shí
  1. 1 to eat
  2. 2 food
  3. 3 animal feed
  4. 4 eclipse
食品
shí pǐn
  1. 1 foodstuff
  2. 2 food
  3. 3 provisions
  4. 4 classifier: 种 zhǒng

Idioms (20)

三旬九食
sān xún jiǔ shí
  1. 1 lit. to have only nine meals in thirty days (idiom)
  2. 2 fig. (of a family) on the brink of starvation
  3. 3 in dire straits
人为财死，鸟为食亡
rén wèi cái sǐ , niǎo wèi shí wáng
  1. 1 lit. human beings will die for riches, just as birds will for food (idiom)
  2. 2 fig. man will do anything in his means to become rich
因噎废食
yīn yē fèi shí
  1. 1 lit. not eating for fear of choking (idiom); fig. to cut off one's nose to spite one's face
  2. 2 to avoid sth essential because of a slight risk
宵衣旰食
xiāo yī gàn shí
  1. 1 to dress before light and not eat before dark (idiom)
  2. 2 diligently attending to official matters
寝食难安
qǐn shí nán ān
  1. 1 lit. cannot rest or eat in peace (idiom)
  2. 2 fig. extremely worried and troubled

Sample Sentences

你一个月伙食费能花多少钱？在学校食堂吃的话，一天三十块够了吧？一个月算你一千块。
nǐ yī ge yuè huǒshífèi néng huā duōshǎo qián ？zài xuéxiào shítáng chī dehuà ，yītiān sānshí kuài gòu le ba ？yī ge yuè suàn nǐ yīqiān kuài 。
How much money do you spend on food in a month? If you eat at the school cafeteria, isn't thirty kuai a day enough? For one month that comes to one thousand kuai.
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在中国喝咖啡实在太贵了。二三十块一杯，都够我一天的伙食费了。
zài Zhōngguó hē kāfēi shízài tài guì le 。èrsānshí kuài yī bēi ，dōu gòu wǒ yī tiān de huǒshí fèi le 。
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