饮食起居

飲食起居

yǐnshí-qǐjū

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

HSK 6

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.

HSK 7-9

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.

HSK 7-9

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.

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