衣食住行 Save Sign in to save words On the HSK 7-9 vocabulary list, at CEFR level C2. yīshízhùxíng ㄧ ㄕˊ ㄓㄨˋ ㄒㄧㄥˊ clothing, food, housing and transportation (idiom) lit. people's basic needs fig. Character by character 衣(yī)clothes 食(shí)eat 住(zhù)live 行(xíng)go A Chinese word or character, or English Search Sources CC-CEDICT, CC BY-SA 4.0 pinyinjs, Apache-2.0 国际中文教育中文水平等级标准, 中华人民共和国教育部, MIT