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.
Stroke order
Words with 食
- 食food, foodstuff
- 食うto eat
- 食らうto eat, to drink, to wolf
- 食わすto feed (e.g. an animal on oats), to let eat, to serve (e.g. in a restaurant)
- 食事meal (e.g. lunch, dinner)
- 食品food, food products, foodstuffs
Practice 食 with brush strokes, spaced repetition and quizzes in the app.