Food, clothing and shelter are the basis of life.
CHINESE DICTIONARY ENTRY
衣食
clothes and food
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DEFINITIONS & USAGE
Meaning and common use
01
clothes and food
REAL CORPUS EXAMPLES
How 衣食 actually appears in real sentences.
These sentences are copied from the Tatoeba corpus, so they are real usage rather than generated text. 衣食 appears in 3 of the 89,190 sentences we searched.
I can provide my family with food and clothing.
When the granaries are full, people observe rules of decorum; when food and clothing are sufficient, people understand honor and disgrace.
COMMON COLLOCATIONS
Words that keep company with 衣食.
Counted from the same corpus: the word that most often comes directly before, and directly after, 衣食.
Directly before
- 提供衣食1
Directly after
- 衣食住1
- 衣食丰足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 衣食
What does 衣食 mean in Chinese?
衣食 (yīshí) means clothes and food.
How do you pronounce 衣食?
衣食 is pronounced yīshí.
Is 衣食 an HSK word?
衣食 is on the list of the HSK 3.1 vocabulary syllabus.
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