炸食

zháshí

noun

Meanings

1 fried food
2 deep-fried snack

Characters

Examples

多吃炸食对身体不好。

Duō chī zháshí duì shēntǐ bùhǎo.

Eating a lot of fried food is bad for your health.

街边的炸食摊很受欢迎。

Jiē biān de zháshí tān hěn shòu huānyíng.

Street-side fried-food stalls are very popular.

Tips

usage

炸 has two readings: zhá (to deep-fry) and zhà (to explode). Here it's zhá — oil-frying. The fuller term 油炸食品 (yóuzhá shípǐn) is more common in formal writing.

Stroke Order

炸 zhà

食 shí