寒食

Traditional form:

寒食

Pinyin (reading):

hánshí

Definitions:

• cold food (i.e. to abstain from cooked food for 3 days around the Qingming festival 清明節／清明节)
• the Qingming festival

Characters:

• 寒 - chilly, cold; poor; to shiver, to tremble
• 食 - food; to eat

Traditional characters:

• 寒 - chilly, cold; poor; to shiver, to tremble
• 食 - food; to eat