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Definition(s) for: 寒食

Hanzi Pinyin Definition(s)
寒食 hán shí - cold food (i.e. to abstain from cooked food for 3 days around the Qingming festival 清明節|清明节)
- the Qingming festival

List Ranking:

Where rank 1 is most common, and higher numbers are less common.

HSK 2 Level (2012) HSK 3 Band (2022) SUBTLEX-CH BeijingUni Global BeijingUni Weibo
- - - 76,299 59,796

Individual Character Breakdown:

Simp Pinyin Eng
寒 hán- cold
- poor
- to tremble
食 shí- to eat
- food
- animal feed
- eclipse
食 sì- to feed (a person or animal)

Other Words Containing 寒食

Sorted by the 'SUBTLEX-CH' rank because that seems like the most reliable. Words without a SUBTLEX-CH rank are ignored for being too rare.

Word HSK 2 Level (2012) HSK 3 Band (2022) SUBTLEX-CH BeijingUni Global BeijingUni Weibo