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Kanji Detail for 喰 - "to eat, to devour"
喰
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Meaning
喰 means "to eat, to devour." Also associated with to ingest.
Eat - To consume food; to devour.
Consume - To ingest; to dine.
Devour - To eat hungrily.
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Tattoo check: 喰
- Verified meaning: to eat, to devour
- Jinmeiyō kanji — officially approved for use in Japanese given names
- Used in real Japanese given names (read くい, たべ)
- Also carries these associations: to ingest
A single kanji rarely maps one-to-one onto an English word. Read the meanings and associations above as a set — a character that fits the dictionary definition can still carry a connotation you did not intend.
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Name readings of 喰
Surnames 喰(くい)
喰(たべ)
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Dictionary Citations
The meaning above is based on the following sources:
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Onyomi
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Kunyomi
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Strokes
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Radical
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Related Keywords
Sentences including 喰
チャーハンが喰いてー。
I want to eat fried rice.
喰え。ボーッとしてないで。
Eat. Don't get distracted.
I wonder if people who are serious about it will also dig their teeth into this?
If you go into the forest, watch out for the man-eating ogres!
The locals call this river the man-eating river and fear it.
僕が昼飯を喰っている時、吉弥は僕のところへやって来て、飯の給仕をしてくれながら太い指にきらめいている宝石入りの指輪を嬉しそうにいじくっていた。
As I was eating lunch, Kichiya came to me and, while she was serving my meal, she was toying happily with her ring set with a gleaming jewel.
Sentences from Japanese classical masterpieces
More kanji with the radical 口 (kuchi・kuchihen)
- 口 mouth, entrance, to speak
- 古 old, ancient, former
- 句 phrase, clause, haiku
- 只 only, free
- 召 to summon, summons, to invite
- 可 to permit, can
- 台 platform, stand, tower
- 叱 to scold, to reprimand
- 史 history, chronicle
- 右 right
- 叶 to be fulfilled, to come true
- 号 call, name, number
- 司 to manage, official, to preside
- 叫 to shout, to cry out
- 各 each, every
- 合 to combine, to match
- 吉 auspicious, good
- 同 same, together
- 名 name, to name, famous
- 后 empress, after
- 吏 official, clerk
- 吐 to vomit, to disgorge
- 向 to face toward, direction, opposite
- 君 lord, you, sovereign
- 吞 swallow, contain, overwhelm
- 吟 to recite, to compose