| shí | animal feed/eat/food |
| sì | to feed |
| 食 | to eat food animal feed |
| 食不厌精，脍不厌细 | chopping food is always welcome |
| 食不果腹 | have little food to eat |
| 食不甘味 | have no appetite for food |
| 食不知味 | lit. to eat without tasting the food worried or downhearted (idiom) |
| 食人 | man-eating (beast) to eat people fig. to oppress the people |
| 食人俗 | cannibalism |
| 食人的 | cannibalistic (of a person or an animal who eats the flesh of other humans) |
| 食人鲨 | man-eating shark same as 大白鯊|大白鲨 |
| 食俗 | eating habit |
| 食俸 | salary of a public official to be in government service |
| 食具 | tableware; dinner service |
| 食分 | magnitude of the eclipse; totality; degree of obscuration |
| 食变星 | eclipsing variable star |
| 食古不化 | read old classics without real comprehension |
| 食叶的 | phyllophagous |
| 食品 | foodstuff food provisions |
| 食品保藏 | food preservation |
| 食品公司 | food company |
| 食品加工 | food handling |