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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
- —学校給食school lunch
- —社員食堂staff cafeteria; staff canteen
- —食品工業food industry
- —大衆食堂cheap restaurant; eating place (house)
- —悪衣悪食shabby clothes and plain foods
- —海岸侵食coastal erosion
- —食欲不振lack of appetite; anorexia
- —摂食障害eating disorder
- —医食同源a balanced diet leads to a healthy body; healthy food both prevents and cures sickness
- —骨肉相食blood feud; domestic discord
- —伴食宰相incompetent cabinet minister; figurehead minister
- —快食快便good appetite and good bowel movements; enjoying one's food and having regular stools
- —快食快眠good appetite and pleasant sleep; enjoying one's food and sleeping well
- —食傷気味being sick and tired (of); being fed up (with); having one's fill (of)
- —飽食暖衣being well fed and warmly clothed
- —和食回帰revival of Japanese food
- —食料安全food safety
- —肉食動物carnivore
- —食肉解体butchery
- —食欲減退decrease in appetite; loss of appetite