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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)
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
- —拒食refusing food
- —減食cutting down on food intake; reducing rations; reducing allowance of food
- —穀食cereal diet; grain-eating
- —三食three meals (a day)
- —蚕食encroachment; making inroads (into); (slow but steady) invasion
- —小食light eating; spare diet; not eating much
- —食券meal ticket
- —食刻etching
- —食指index finger; forefinger
- —食前before meals
- —食通gourmandism; gourmet; gourmand; foodie
- —寝食bed and food; eating and sleeping
- —摂食eating; feeding
- —節食eating lightly (to save money, food, calories, etc.)
- —粗食simple diet; plain food; simple food; frugal meal
- —多食one who generally eats a lot
- —陪食dining with one's superior; dining with one's superiors
- —伴食eating with a guest; nominal official
- —氷食glacial scouring; glacial erosion; glacial abrasion
- —副食side dish; supplementary food