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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
- —自校給食on-site provision of school meals
- —土壌浸食soil erosion
- —食品公害food contamination; pollution of food products
- —過食嘔吐bulimia
- —部分月食partial lunar eclipse; partial eclipse of the moon
- —差別侵食differential erosion
- —食欲旺盛voracious; having a hearty appetite
- —朝食会場breakfast restaurant (of a hotel, etc.)
- —合成食品synthetic food; artificial food
- —食肉加工meat processing; meatpacking
- —食品中毒food poisoning
- —錦衣玉食beautiful clothes and fine food; life of luxury
- —膨化食品puffed food
- —絶食療法starvation cure; fasting treatment; medical fasting
- —とろみ食thickened food (for patients with dysphagia)
- —非腐食性non-corrosive
- —食欲中枢appetite center (of the brain)
- —摂食中枢feeding center (of the brain)
- —食事作法table manners; dining etiquette
- —正栄食品Shoei Foods Corporation