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食 kanji
eat, food
- JLPT level
- N5 (unofficial)
- First appears in
- N5 vocabulary
- Strokes
- 9
- School grade
- Grade 2 (elementary school)
On readings
ショクジキ
Kun readings
くうくらうたべるはむ
Variant forms
飠Words with 食
LevelWord & meaningActions
- —愛食love of eating (a particular food, dish, etc.)
- —黙食eating in quiet; eating without talking
- —血食animal sacrifice
- —混食omnivorous diet; mixing rice with other cereals; rice mixed with other cereals
- —爆食eating heavily; excessive eating; devouring; consuming voraciously
- —食痕feeding signs (of an animal, e.g. teeth marks in nuts, holes in leaves)
- —食禁dietary restriction (due to illness, requirements of a medicine, etc.)
- —異食pica; parorexia; allotriophagy
- —可食edible
- —食すto eat
- —東食Toshoku (Japanese trading company)
- —嗜食eating with liking; relishing; indulging in; eating regularly; habitually eating
- —屍食necrophagy; necrophagia; eating corpses
- —育児食baby food
- —飲食物food and drink
- —宇宙食space food
- —過食症binge eating; bulimarexia
- —皆既食total eclipse (solar or lunar); totality
- —拒食症anorexia
- —金環食annular eclipse