饮食起居

飲食起居

yǐnshíqǐjū

idiom #93,019

Meanings

1 food, drink, and daily routines
2 one's day-to-day life; daily living habits

Characters

to rise; to get up

to reside; to dwell

Examples

妈妈细心地照顾他的饮食起居。

Māma xìxīn de zhàogù tā de yǐnshíqǐjū.

Mom carefully tends to his food and daily routines.

老人家的饮食起居要特别注意。

Lǎorénjia de yǐnshíqǐjū yào tèbié zhùyì.

An elderly person's diet and daily routine need special attention.

他一个人在国外，饮食起居都要自己打理。

Tā yí ge rén zài guówài, yǐnshíqǐjū dōu yào zìjǐ dǎlǐ.

Living alone abroad, he has to manage all his daily living himself.

Tips

usage

A stock four-character phrase covering the basics of daily life: what you eat (饮食) and your pattern of waking, resting, and moving (起居). Most common in contexts of caregiving — elderly, children, patients, students — or traditional Chinese medicine, which treats regular 饮食起居 as essential to health.

memory

Split into two pairs: 饮食 (drink + eat = diet) + 起居 (rise + dwell = daily life pattern). Four characters, four basic verbs of bodily existence. Nothing hidden in the meaning.

Stroke Order

饮 yǐn

食 shí

起 qǐ

居 jū