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食

JLPT N5 SL2 9 strokes Frequency: #328

Meanings

Eat, Food

Radicals

食

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 (20 words)

食休みしょくやすみ

rest after a meal

食い扶持くいぶち

food expenses

食べ歩きたべあるき

trying the food at various restaurants

grocery store

half-eaten

surfeit

gluttony

food control system

food poisoning

carnivorous plants

eat one's words

all-you-can-eat

red food coloring

gourmand

leavings of a meal

food agency

table salt

food industry

half-eaten

innocent look

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