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Pīnyīn Pronunciation
sì | si4
English translation
old variant of
>[sì]
to raise
to rear
to feed
to raise animals; to nourish, to feed

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Number of strokes

8

Traditional form

Contains the radical

shí

Part of speech

Noun / 名词 míng cí Míngcí

Learning hint

food

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Type

pictophonetic

Positional decomposition

饣司

Semantic compound

shí

Phonetic compound

Explanation

Phonosemantic compound. shí represents the meaning and represents the sound. Simplified form of .

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他们 tā men 高粱 gāo liáng 做成 le zhū 饲料 sì liào .

They made sorghum into pig feed.

数千年以前 yǐqián 人们 rén men jiù 学会 xué huì le 饲养 sìyǎng 动物 dòngwù .

Many thousand years ago people learned how to domesticate animals.

liáng shì 每日 měi rì wéi zhū 提供 tígōng de 饲料 sì liào wéi gěi liáng .

The ration is the amount of feed offered to the pig daily.

市场 shìchǎng shǎng yǒu 许多 xǔduō 优良 yōu liáng de 自动 zìdòng 半自动 bàn zì dòng 手工 shǒugōng wéi 装置 zhuāng zhì 出售 chū shòu .

There are many good automatic, semiautomatic, and hand feeding devices available commercially.

zhè shì zhǒng 良好 liánghǎo de 疫苗 yì miáo , 尤其 yóuqí duì wéi 残羹 cán gēng de zhū .

It is a good vaccine, particularly in pigs fed on swill.

Words with

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FrequencySimplifiedMeaningTraditional
饲料 sì liào feed飼料
饲养 sìyǎng to raise飼養
饲养员 sì yǎng yuán zookeeper飼養員
to raise
饲草 sì cǎo forage grass飼草
饲养业 sì yǎng yè stock farming飼養業
饲养者 sì yǎng zhě feeder飼養者

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Decomposition

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