Hummingbirds drink the sweet nectar from certain flowers.
CHINESE DICTIONARY ENTRY
吸食
(of an insect) to drink (nectar, sap, blood etc)
IN A VIDEO吸食
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DEFINITIONS & USAGE
Meaning and common use
01
(of an insect) to drink (nectar, sap, blood etc)
02
(of a person) to take (a narcotic drug)
03
to drink through a straw
REAL CORPUS EXAMPLES
How 吸食 actually appears in real sentences.
These sentences are copied from the Tatoeba corpus, so they are real usage rather than generated text. 吸食 appears in 3 of the 89,190 sentences we searched.
Sami stopped smoking weed for six months.
In many countries, buying or smoking cannabis is forbidden by law.
COMMON COLLOCATIONS
Words that keep company with 吸食.
Counted from the same corpus: the word that most often comes directly before, and directly after, 吸食.
Directly before
- 和吸食1
- 会吸食1
- 没有吸食1
Directly after
- 吸食大麻2
- 吸食某些1
ABOUT THIS ENTRY
Where this entry comes from
The HSK level, part of speech, and pronunciation come from the HSK 3.1 vocabulary syllabus. The English definitions come from CC-CEDICT. Corpus sentences, collocations, and the frequency figure come from the Tatoeba Chinese sentence export and are counted rather than written, so nothing on this page is invented. Usage notes and the hand-written examples that appear higher up exist only for a handful of entries.
Definitions from CC-CEDICT, licensed CC BY-SA 4.0. Vocabulary levels and parts of speech from the HSK 3.1 syllabus. This compiled dictionary is shared under the same CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.
COMMON QUESTIONS
About 吸食
What does 吸食 mean in Chinese?
吸食 (xīshí) means (of an insect) to drink (nectar, sap, blood etc).
How do you pronounce 吸食?
吸食 is pronounced xīshí.
Is 吸食 an HSK word?
吸食 is on the list of the HSK 3.1 vocabulary syllabus.
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