Chinese symbol for “predation”
掠食
lüè shí
to prey on; predation; predatory
The closest CC-CEDICT match for predation is 掠食 (lüè shí), defined as: to prey on; predation; predatory.
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Characters and stroke order
Related words
Other words that share a character with 掠食.
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 掠夺 (掠奪) | lüè duó | to plunder; to rob |
| 掠过 (掠過) | lüè guò | to flit across; to sweep past |
| 劫掠 | jié lüè | to loot; to plunder |
| 抢掠 (搶掠) | qiǎng lüè | to loot; looting |
| 掠夺者 (掠奪者) | lüè duó zhě | robber; plunderer |
| 飞掠 (飛掠) | fēi lüè | to fly past; to sweep past (at close range); (of a spacecraft) to do a flyby (of a celestial body) |
| 食品 | shí pǐn | foodstuff; food; provisions |
| 食物 | shí wù | food |
See also: Japanese symbol for “predation”.
Data: CC-CEDICT (CC BY-SA 4.0); Unihan Database (Unicode License v3); Make Me a Hanzi (Arphic Public License (graphics.txt); LGPL-3.0-or-later (dictionary.txt)); wordfreq (CC BY-SA 4.0 (data)). Retrieved 2026-10-22.