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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)
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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
- —海食洞sea cave; marine cave
- —海食崖sea cliff
- —機内食in-flight meal
- —離乳食solid foods (as introduced during weaning); weaning food; complementary foods; solids
- —肉食獣carnivore; carnivorous animal
- —食人種cannibals
- —食用油cooking oil
- —食休みrest after a meal
- —食卓塩table salt
- —食前酒aperitif
- —食品店grocery store
- —食道楽gourmand; epicure
- —食塩水saline water
- —食事時mealtime
- —食肉目Carnivora
- —食連星eclipsing variable
- —昼食時lunch time
- —食文化food culture; dietary culture; cuisine
- —異食症pica; parorexia; allotriophagy
- —食するto eat; to become eclipsed (of an astronomical object)