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Kanji Detail for 食 - "eat, food, meal"

  • Meaning

    食 means "eat, food, meal."

    1. Eat - To consume food.

    2. Food - Nourishment for the body.

    3. Meal - An occasion of eating.

    4. Eclipse - When one celestial body blocks another.

  • Dictionary Citations

    The meaning above is based on the following sources:

    KANJIDIC2 A comprehensive Japanese-English kanji dictionary

    eat; food

    Unihan Unicode Han Database for CJK characters

    eat; meal; food; Kangxi radical 184

    CC-CEDICT A Chinese-English dictionary

    to eat; food; animal feed; eclipse

    Make Me a Hanzi Open-source Chinese character data

    food; to eat

    XSZD Xuéshēng Zìdiǎn (學生字典) - Student's Dictionary

    What nourishes the stomach and body. Originally referring to grains. By extension, anything that serves as sustenance is called 食. As in 蔬食 (vegetables), 肉食 (meat). | Putting something in the mouth, chewing, and swallowing. Colloquially called 喫 (eat). | Salary. The Analects says: "A gentleman seeks the Way, not food." | Interchangeable with 蝕. 日食 (solar eclipse), 月食 (lunar eclipse). Sometimes written as 蝕. Meaning loss or damage. | 食言. Breaking one's word after speaking. Found in the Zuo Commentary. | 食指. The second finger of the hand. Today also used to refer to the number of people to feed. As in 食指繁多 (many mouths to feed). | Interchangeable with 飼. To give food to someone. The Book of Odes says: "Giving them drink, giving them food."
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Sentences including

  • Won't you go out to lunch with us?

  • What do you usually have for breakfast?

  • Can i have something to eat?

  • He was in the habit of taking a walk after supper.

  • My father stopped reading to have lunch.

  • In those days , i made it a point to take a walk before breakfast.

  • They are at lunch.

  • Do you want to have sushi tonight?

  • Why don't you dine out with me for a change?

  • Do you have anything to eat?

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