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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)

食い止めるくいとめる

to check

食らいつくくらいつく

to bite at

食べ散らすたべちらす

to eat a bit of everything

all-you-can-eat

table salt

etching

eating habits

dining car

food additive

food

food shortage

before meals

esophagus

food

foodstuff

encroachment

bed and food

living in idleness

cannibals

innocent look

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