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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
- —日清食品Nissin Foods
- —人肉嗜食cannibalism; anthropophagy; eating human flesh
- —菜食主義者vegetarian
- —食指が動くto have an itch to; to have a craving for; to have an urge to; to have a desire for; to be eager to; to want to
- —食品加工業food industry
- —食品衛生法Food Sanitation Act
- —食糧管理法Staple Food Control Act
- —居間兼食堂living room-cum-dining room
- —食器一揃いa table service
- —朝食を出すto serve breakfast
- —生鮮食料品perishable food; perishables
- —食料雑貨店grocery; grocer's shop
- —食器洗い機dishwasher; dishwashing machine
- —コピー食品artificial food (fabricated to resemble rare or expensive foods)
- —食品成分表standard tables of food composition in Japan
- —食欲不振症anorexia
- —草食系男子man who doesn't adhere to traditional masculinity, esp. with women and careers; herbivore man
- —機能性食品functional food
- —頂点捕食者apex predator
- —食料貯蔵室larder; pantry; stillroom; buttery