食
eat; food
9 strokes. Taught in grade 2. Newspaper frequency rank 328.
Readings
- たべる (kun reading): 食べる (たべる) to eat; 食べ物 (たべもの) food
- ショク (on reading): 食事 (しょくじ) meal (e.g. lunch, dinner); 夕食 (ゆうしょく) evening meal
- くう (kun reading): 食う (くう) to eat; 食い (くい) eating
- くらう (kun reading): 食らう (くらう) to eat; 面食らう (めんくらう) to be confused
- ジキ (on reading): 乞食 (こじき) beggar; 断食 (だんじき) fasting
- はむ (kun reading): 食み (はみ) eating (fodder, grass, etc.); 相食む (あいはむ) to compete with each other
Components
- 食 radical eat; food
Kanji containing 食
Words using 食
- 食べる (たべる) to eat
- 食べ物 (たべもの) food
- 食べ過ぎる (たべすぎる) to overeat
- 食べ歩き (たべあるき) trying the food at various restaurants
- 食べ放題 (たべほうだい) all-you-can-eat
- 食事 (しょくじ) meal (e.g. lunch, dinner)
- 夕食 (ゆうしょく) evening meal
- 食 (しょく) food
- 朝食 (ちょうしょく) breakfast
- 昼食 (ちゅうしょく) lunch
- 食う (くう) to eat
- 食い (くい) eating
- 大食い (おおぐい) eating heavily
- 食い込む (くいこむ) to bite into (e.g. rope into skin)
- 食いつく (くいつく) to bite at
- 食らう (くらう) to eat
- 面食らう (めんくらう) to be confused
- 大食らい (おおぐらい) glutton
- 食らわす (くらわす) to make someone eat
- あの声で蜥蜴食らうか時鳥 (あのこえでとかげくらうかほととぎす) don't judge a book by its cover
- 乞食 (こじき) beggar
- 断食 (だんじき) fasting
- 餌食 (えじき) prey (i.e. of a predator)
- 悪食 (あくじき) eating strange food
- 食封 (じきふ) stipend given to a designated person, such as a noble, and which was paid by a designated household (ritsuryō system)
- 食み (はみ) eating (fodder, grass, etc.)
- 相食む (あいはむ) to compete with each other
- 禄を食む (ろくをはむ) to get a salary (from)
- 骨肉相食む (こつにくあいはむ) to have a consanguineous feud
- 薬食 (ヤクシク) yaksik (sweet Korean dish with rice and nuts)
- 太食調 (たいしきちょう) taishiki mode (one of the six main gagaku modes)
- 食す (おす) to eat
- 喝食 (かっしき) announcing meals (at a Zen monastery)
- 喝食行者 (かっしきあんじゃ) meal announcer (at a Zen monastery)
893 words in all.