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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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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
- —和食処Japanese style restaurant; Japanese style dining hall
- —和食膳tray of traditional Japanese food
- —草食系man who is uninterested in aggressively pursuing women; peaceable men who don't approach women as potential partners; herbivore
- —肉食系man's man; man aggressively pursuing sex and riches; carnivore
- —雑食系man who is neither overly aggressive nor overly passive in pursuing sex and riches; omnivore
- —郷土食local cuisine; regional cuisine
- —治療食therapeutic diet; therapeutic food
- —給食費charge for a meal (usu. at school); school lunch fee
- —病人食invalid diet; diet for the sick; diet for patients
- —夕食時dinnertime; suppertime
- —食用蛙bullfrog
- —伝統食traditional food; ancestral food
- —食養生taking nourishing food; eating a balanced diet
- —人肉食cannibalism
- —昆虫食entomophagy; insect eating
- —大食家big eater; trencherman; glutton
- —部屋食meal (esp. dinner) served in one's room (at a ryokan)
- —食レポfood review (on TV, social media, etc.); food reportage
- —朝食券breakfast voucher; breakfast coupon
- —病院食hospital food; hospital meals