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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
- —食料費food expenses; food prices
- —草食獣herbivore
- —口径食vignetting
- —腐食剤corrosive agent
- —肉食性carnivorousness; carnivorous
- —草食性herbivorous; graminivorous
- —国民食food universally loved by all citizens; comfort food
- —銀食器silverware; silver tableware
- —腐肉食scavenging
- —食道鏡esophagoscope; oesophagoscope
- —食道炎esophagitis
- —食虫性insectivorous; entomophagous
- —食作用phagocytosis
- —食事会dinner party; ceremonial dinner; dinner meeting (or lunch, breakfast)
- —絶飲食fasting
- —食後酒digestif
- —腐食性corrosiveness; causticity
- —食中酒alcohol or sake drunk during the meal (as opposed to aperitifs, digestifs, etc.)
- —食用菌edible mushroom
- —和定食Japanese-style set menu