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Kanji for food

N5Grade 29 strokes

food, eat

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Kun
On

食 is the Japanese kanji for food, eat. It is written with 9 strokes and appears at JLPT level N5. Its kun reading is く.う、く.らう、た.べる and its on reading is ショク、ジキ.

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Words with 食

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