小食

しょうしょく

Also written 少食

Meanings

1. Noun light eating; spare diet; not eating much

Kanji

• 小 small. Read as ショウ.
• 食 eat. Read as ショク.

Example sentences

• かぜには大食、熱には小食。
  Feed a cold and starve a fever.
• あいつは小食なんだ。
  Oh, he eats like a bird.
• あなた、少食だね？
  You don't eat much, do you?
• あなたより、少食よ。
  I eat less than you.

Words containing 小食

• 小食家 (しょうしょくか) light eater

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