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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
- —食洗機dishwasher; dishwashing machine
- —昼食代lunch price
- —肉食鳥carnivorous bird
- —昼食後after lunch
- —朝食後after breakfast
- —食事代cost of a meal (or meals)
- —食器類dinnerware; cutlery
- —食道癌esophageal cancer
- —雑食性omnivorousness; polyphagia; omnivorous; polyphagous
- —非常食emergency food; emergency rations
- —食品群food group
- —食用花edible flower
- —パン食bread-centered diet (as opposed to rice)
- —食細胞phagocyte
- —自然食natural food; health food
- —食用菊edible chrysanthemum
- —捕食者predator
- —被食者prey
- —給食室Japanese (school) lunchroom; Japanese (school) cafeteria
- —食習慣eating habits; dietary habits