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食
Meanings
Eat, Food
Radicals
食
人
Decomposition
⿱人良
Etymology
Pictographic: A dish of food 良 with a lid on top 人
Writing Practice
Stroke
0 / 9
Stroke Order
1
diagonal
top-right-to-bottom-left
2
diagonal
right-to-left
3
vertical
right-to-left
4
corner
bottom-right-to-top-left
5
horizontal
left-to-right
6
horizontal
bottom-to-top
7
corner
bottom-right-to-top-left
8
diagonal
bottom-right-to-top-left
9
diagonal
bottom-right-to-top-left
On'yomi
(Chinese reading)
ショク
shoku
ジキ
jiki
Kun'yomi
(Japanese reading)
は
ha
く
ku
た
ta
Words Using This Kanji
813 words total
Other
(813 words)
食
しょく
food
食う
くう
to eat
食む
はむ
to eat (fodder, grass, etc.)
食す
おす
to eat
食み
はみ
eating (fodder, grass, etc.)
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