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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
- —米食rice-based or centered diet (centred)
- —美食gourmet food; delicious food; dining on gourmet food; following a lavish diet; living as an epicure
- —水食(water) erosion
- —大食gluttony
- —甘食sweet bun
- —雑食omnivorous
- —耐食corrosion-resistant
- —欠食missing a meal
- —立食stand-up meal; buffet
- —粒食eating rice; (cereal) grains
- —食虫insectivore
- —食言eat one's words; break one's promises
- —食紅red food coloring; red food colouring
- —食間between meals
- —食傷surfeit; glut; being fed up; food poisoning
- —食餌food (esp. for a medical diet)
- —食膳dining table; a dish (type of food)
- —座食living in idleness
- —風食wind erosion
- —熟食well-cooked food; well-boiled food