Kanji1 / 9
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
- —酒食food and (alcoholic) drink
- —必食must-eat
- —個食meal with family members eating separate foods; eating alone (without one's family); food sold in single servings
- —固食eating only one's favourite food; having an unvarying diet; eating poorly
- —食時meal time; mealtime
- —食禄salary; stipend
- —食俸stipend (usu. paid in kind); salary
- —食封stipend given to a designated person, such as a noble, and which was paid by a designated household (ritsuryō system)
- —貯食(food) hoarding
- —配食delivering food (to elderly); meals on wheels
- —寒食Chinese tradition of consuming only cold food on the 105th day after the winter solstice; 105th day after the winter solstice
- —冷食frozen food; eating raw food; Chinese tradition of consuming only cold food on the 105th day after the winter solstice; 105th day after the winter solstice
- —湿食wet corrosion
- —食素basic food elements (protein, fat, carbohydrates, water, minerals)
- —検食inspection of food (before it is served at a school, nursing home, etc.); food sample (used to determine the source of contamination in the event of food poisoning)
- —共食communal eating of food that has been offered to a god; sacrificial meal; eating together (with family, friends, etc.); communal dining
- —韓食Korean cuisine; Korean food
- —蔬食vegetarian diet; vegetarian food
- —食店restaurant; eatery
- —採食foraging; feeding