中毒 (zhòng dú) means “to be poisoned”. It is an HSK 5 Chinese word in the HSK 3.0 vocabulary.
Practice each character:
他吃了变质的食物中毒了。
Tā chī le biànzhì de shíwù zhòngdú le.
He got food poisoning from eating spoiled food.
Updated: 2026-07-18