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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
- —飽食時代current era of excessive eating; era in which there is more than enough food; age of plenty; age of plentiful food
- —保存食品preserved foodstuffs
- —食中毒菌bacteria capable of causing food poisoning
- —金環日食annular solar eclipse
- —貪食細胞phagocyte
- —大食細胞macrophage
- —食が細いeating only a little; having a small appetite
- —食品玩具small toy included with food
- —食の細いsparsely eating; having a small appetite
- —雑食動物omnivore; omnivorous animal
- —学生食堂school cafeteria
- —飲食禁止no food or drink (e.g. as a sign in a library, etc.); no eating or drinking
- —食品会社food company
- —糧食準備food preparation
- —食品衛生food hygiene
- —魚食動物piscivore
- —葉食動物folivore
- —果食動物frugivore
- —没食子酸gallic acid
- —腐食銅版copperplate etching