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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
- —晩食supper; dinner
- —食饌food served on a table (esp. food served on a small Japanese table)
- —雪食nivation
- —食草edible grass (for insects); larval food plant
- —食味taste; flavour; flavor
- —食缶food container (esp. for transport)
- —内食home cooking; eating at home
- —食油cooking oil; food oil
- —角食square bread; Pullman loaf; sandwich loaf; bread
- —山食English bread; roundtop bread; high tin loaf
- —誤食accidental ingestion
- —食酢vinegar; table vinegar
- —食糞coprophagia; coprophagy; scatophagy; eating feces (faeces)
- —社食staff canteen
- —喫食eating; having a meal
- —素食usual diet; vegetarian food; vegetarian diet
- —実食trying (a food) for oneself; eating (a new product, renowned dish, etc.)
- —食養taking nourishing food; eating a balanced diet; dietetics; macrobiotics; macrobiotic diet
- —食入eating into (esp. insects and larvae eating into fruit, etc.)
- —食害damage to crops by vermin (esp. insects); pest damage