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觅食

mìshí

to forage

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DEFINITIONS & USAGE

Meaning and common use

01

to forage

02

to hunt for food

03

to scavenge

04

fig. to make a living

REAL CORPUS EXAMPLES

How 觅食 actually appears in real sentences.

These sentences are copied from the Tatoeba corpus, so they are real usage rather than generated text. 觅食 appears in 4 of the 89,190 sentences we searched. Sentences without a published English translation are shown in Chinese only.

蝙蝠在夜中觅食 。biān fú zài yè zhōng mì shí。

Bats hunt at night.

蝉破土而出后，会蜕皮，等待身体乾燥变硬，然后飞到树顶觅食和寻找配偶，它们通过发出响亮的蝉鸣来寻找配偶。chán pò tǔ ér chū hòu， huì tuì pí， děng dài shēn tǐ qián zào biàn yìng， rán hòu fēi dào shù dǐng mì shí hé xún zhǎo pèi ǒu， tā men tōng guò fā chū xiǎng liàng de chán míng lái xún zhǎo pèi ǒu。

Once out of the ground, the cicadas molt and wait for their bodies to dry and harden, then they fly to the tops of trees where they feed and look for a mate, which they do by making a loud buzz.

它们虽然年纪还小，但已经懂得一起觅食。tā men suī rán nián jì hái xiǎo， dàn yǐ jīng dǒng de yì qǐ mì shí。

No published English translation for this sentence.

COMMON COLLOCATIONS

Words that keep company with 觅食.

Counted from the same corpus: the word that most often comes directly before, and directly after, 觅食.

Directly before

  • 夜中觅食1
  • 树顶觅食1
  • 一起觅食1
  • 在觅食1

Directly after

  • 觅食和1
  • 觅食过程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 觅食

What does 觅食 mean in Chinese?

觅食 (mìshí) means to forage.

How do you pronounce 觅食?

觅食 is pronounced mìshí.

Is 觅食 an HSK word?

觅食 is on the list of the HSK 3.1 vocabulary syllabus.

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