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

食

  • Meaning

    食 means "to 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.

  • Words using 食

    • 食事 しょくじ Listen meal (e.g. lunch, dinner); diet
    • 食品 しょくひん Listen food; food products; foodstuffs
    • 食料 しょくりょう Listen food
    • 食糧 しょくりょう Listen food (esp. staple food such as rice or wheat); provisions; rations
    • 昼食 ちゅうしょく Listen lunch; midday meal
    • 夕食 ゆうしょく Listen evening meal; dinner
    • 給食 きゅうしょく Listen provision of lunch (e.g. at office, school, etc.); providing a meal; lunch service
    • 飲食 いんしょく Listen food and drink; eating and drinking

  • Four-character idioms with 食

    • 弱肉強食 じゃくにくきょうしょく Listen the law of the jungle; the strong prey on the weak; the weak become the victim of the strong
    • 伴食大臣 ばんしょくだいじん Listen nominal (figurehead) minister; titular minister
    • 伴食宰相 ばんしょくさいしょう Listen incompetent cabinet minister; figurehead minister
    • 医食同源 いしょくどうげん Listen a balanced diet leads to a healthy body; healthy food both prevents and cures sickness
    • 悪衣悪食 あくいあくしょく Listen shabby clothes and plain foods
    • 暖衣飽食 だんいほうしょく Listen well-fed and well-dressed

  • Tattoo check: 食

    • Verified meaning: to eat, food, meal
    • Official Jōyō kanji — a standard character every Japanese reader recognises

    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.

  • 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."

  • Onyomi

    tip

    jiki(ジキ) ジキ

    shoku(ショク) ショク

  • Kunyomi

    tip

    ha.mu(は-む) は-む

    ku.u(く-う) く-う

    kura.u(く-らう) く-らう

    taberu(た-べる) た-べる

  • Strokes

    tip

    9 strokes

  • Radical

    tip

    食 飠 (shoku・shokuhen)

  • Related Keywords

    to eat food meal eclipse nurturing consume cuisine diet feast feed nourish nutrition cooking dine

Sentences including 食

  • 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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