food retention; indigestion (esp. in children)
Tone colorsmāmámǎmàma
Meanings
1 sense · 3 examplesverb
to suffer from food retention; to have indigestion (esp. of children)
dialectOriginally a regional/dialectal term (marked 〈方〉 in standard dictionaries), now widely used in Traditional Chinese Medicine (TCM) contexts to describe digestive stagnation in children caused by overeating or consumption of greasy foods. Symptoms include loss of appetite, foul breath, and abdominal distension.
Hái孩
zi子
jī积
shí食
le了
，
bù不
xiǎng想
chī吃
fàn饭
。
The child has food retention and doesn't want to eat.
Zhōng中
yī医
zhěn诊
duàn断
tā他
shì是
jī积
shí食
yǐn引
qǐ起
de的
ké咳
sou嗽
。
The traditional Chinese medicine doctor diagnosed that his cough was caused by food retention.
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Bié别
ràng让
hái孩
zi子
chī吃
tài太
duō多
líng零
shí食
，
róng容
yì易
jī积
shí食
。
Don't let children eat too many snacks; it's easy for them to get food stagnation.