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食材

shícái

(food) ingredient

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DEFINITIONS & USAGE

Meaning and common use

01

(food) ingredient

REAL CORPUS EXAMPLES

How 食材 actually appears in real sentences.

These sentences are copied from the Tatoeba corpus, so they are real usage rather than generated text. 食材 appears in 7 of the 89,190 sentences we searched. Sentences without a published English translation are shown in Chinese only.

他又往锅里加了一种食材。tā yòu wǎng guō lǐ jiā le yī zhǒng shí cái。

He added another ingredient to the pot.

土豆是最常见的食材之一。tǔ dòu shì zuì cháng jiàn de shí cái zhī yī。

Potatoes are one of the most common foodstuffs.

手擀面是一种常见的食材。shǒu gǎn miàn shì yī zhǒng cháng jiàn de shí cái。

No published English translation for this sentence.

COMMON COLLOCATIONS

Words that keep company with 食材.

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

Directly before

  • 的食材5
  • 只是食材1
  • 一种食材1

Directly after

  • 食材之一1
  • 食材不1
  • 食材打造出1
  • 食材往往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 食材

What does 食材 mean in Chinese?

食材 (shícái) means (food) ingredient.

How do you pronounce 食材?

食材 is pronounced shícái.

Is 食材 an HSK word?

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

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