She is on a diet.
CHINESE DICTIONARY ENTRY
节食
to save food
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DEFINITIONS & USAGE
Meaning and common use
01
to save food
02
to go on a diet
REAL CORPUS EXAMPLES
How 节食 actually appears in real sentences.
These sentences are copied from the Tatoeba corpus, so they are real usage rather than generated text. 节食 appears in 12 of the 89,190 sentences we searched.
I'm on a diet.
She is on a diet.
COMMON COLLOCATIONS
Words that keep company with 节食.
Counted from the same corpus: the word that most often comes directly before, and directly after, 节食.
Directly before
- 在节食7
- 应该节食1
- 而节食1
- 她节食1
- 严格节食1
Directly after
- 节食中2
- 节食了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 节食
What does 节食 mean in Chinese?
节食 (jiéshí) means to save food.
How do you pronounce 节食?
节食 is pronounced jiéshí.
Is 节食 an HSK word?
节食 is on the list of the HSK 3.1 vocabulary syllabus.
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