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The character for "food" or "to eat" originates from an early pictographic representation of a vessel containing gathered grains, a form that conceptually consolidated the idea of a meal. Its structure evolved into a more stylized composition, which in its traditional form, when used as a radical in other characters, is written as "飠" to indicate a semantic relationship to food or eating. While its core meaning has always been associated with nourishment and the act of consuming it, the character's application broadened over time to form words describing abstract consumptive processes, such as erosion or the encroachment of one thing upon another, extending its semantic field beyond the purely physical act of eating.
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我喜欢吃食物。
这些食物很美味。
我们去超市买食品。
健康饮食很重要。
要注意食品安全。
他的饮食习惯很好。
食品工业发展很快。
为了健康，我们应该选择营养丰富的食物。