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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
- —分食partial eclipse
- —兵食food for soldiers and noncommissioned officers
- —捕食predation; eating prey; preying upon
- —暴食overeating; gluttony
- —夜食supper; night meal; late-night snack; "fourth meal"; midnight snack
- —貪食voracity; ravenousness
- —一食one meal; one meal (a day)
- —食客free-loader; hanger-on; parasite; house guest
- —二食two meals; (eating) two meals a day
- —食育dietary education; nutrition education; food education
- —食尽maximum eclipse; maximum obscuration
- —遊食living in idleness
- —常食daily food; regular diet; staple food
- —寄食living off (a person); sponging off; parasitism
- —星食occultation (by the Moon)
- —徒食idle life; idleness
- —絶食fasting
- —馬食heavy eating
- —粉食powdered food; food made from flour
- —防食protection against corrosion; prevention of corrosion