食 ぐい
ショク, ジキ, く.う, く.らう, た.べる, は.む
eat, food

This kanji is also known as the "food" radical 食 (しよく), which has 9 strokes.

Sample compounds (73) :

  1. 食う
    くう
    (male) (vulg) to eat
  2. 食べる
    たべる
    to eat
  3. 食らう
    くらう
    to eat, to drink, to receive (blow)
  4. 食パン
    しょくパン
    plain bread
  5. 一食
    いちじき
    one meal (a day)
  6. 三食
    さんしょく
    three meals (a day)
  7. 昼食
    ひるげ
    lunch, midday meal
  8. 昼食
    ちゅうしょく
    lunch, midday meal
  9. 蚕食
    さんしょく
    encroachment, invasion, aggression
  10. 悪食
    あくしょく
    (vs) eating poor food, eating meat, eating repulsive things
  11. 食み出す
    はみだす
    to be forced out, to jut out (of bounds), be crowded out
  12. 果食
    かしょく
    living on fruit
  13. 二食
    にじき
    two meals (a day)
  14. 会食
    かいしょく
    dining together, mess
  15. 食い伸ばす
    くいのばす
    to keep alive on, to stretch food to make ends meet
  16. 侵食
    しんしょく
    (vs) infringement, violation
  17. 食い倒す
    くいたおす
    to bilk, to eat up one's fortune
  18. 貪り食らう
    むさぼりくらう
    to devour greedily
  19. 偏食
    へんしょく
    unbalanced diet
  20. 食い入る
    くいいる
    to eat into
  21. 共食い
    ともぐい
    cannibalism (in animals), mutual destruction, internecine struggle, eating each other, damaging each other
  22. 食前
    しょくぜん
    before meals
  23. レトルト食品
    レトルトしょくひん
    packed and sterilised food, retort pack
  24. インスタント食品
    インスタントしょくひん
    instant foods
  25. 食塩
    しょくえん
    table salt
  26. 外食
    がいしょく
    eating out
  27. 定食
    ていしょく
    set meal, special (of the day)
  28. 食客
    しょっきゃく
    house guest, (euph.) free-loader
  29. 食客
    いそうろう
    house guest, (euph.) free-loader
  30. 寝食い
    ねぐい
    living in idleness
  31. 食堂
    しょくどう
    cafeteria, dining hall
  32. 食尽
    しょくじん
    maximum eclipse, maximum obscuration
  33. 食い延ばす
    くいのばす
    to keep alive on, to stretch food to make ends meet
  34. 食後
    しょくご
    after a meal
  35. 拒食
    きょしょく
    (vs) refusing food
  36. 食指
    しょくし
    forefinger, index finger
  37. 摂食
    せっしょく
    (vs) feeding, feed
  38. 食べ散らす
    たべちらす
    to eat a bit of everything
  39. 食い散らす
    くいちらす
    to eat untidily, to eat a bit of everything
  40. 断食
    だんじき
    (vs) fasting
  41. 食べ方
    たべかた
    way of eating, how to eat
  42. 日食
    にっしょく
    solar eclipse
  43. 月食
    げっしょく
    lunar eclipse
  44. 食止める
    くいとめる
    to check, to hold back
  45. 食い気
    くいけ
    appetite
  46. 気に食わない
    きにくわない
    to be unable to stomach
  47. 洋食
    ようしょく
    Western-style meal
  48. 漆食
    しっくい
    mortar, plaster, stucco
  49. 食用
    しょくよう
    for use as food, edible
  50. 和食
    わしょく
    Japanese-style meal
  51. 立ち食い
    たちぐい
    (vs) eating while standing, eating at a (street) stall
  52. 食料
    しょくりょう
    food
  53. 粗食
    そしょく
    simple diet, poor food
  54. 食糧
    しょくりょう
    provisions, rations
  55. 給食
    きゅうしょく
    (vs) school lunch, providing a meal
  56. 朝食
    ちょうしょく
    breakfast
  57. 食い荒らす
    くいあらす
    to devour, to work a various things, to eat some of everything
  58. 菜食
    さいしょく
    vegetable diet
  59. 蟻食い
    ありくい
    anteater
  60. 食費
    しょくひ
    food expense
  61. 食い込む
    くいこむ
    to eat into
  62. 食い逸れ
    くいはぐれ
    missing a meal, losing means to make one's livelihood
  63. 食違う
    くいちがう
    to cross each other, to run counter to, to differ, to clash, to go awry
  64. 食い違い
    くいちがい
    discrepancy, different or conflicting opinions
  65. 過食
    かしょく
    (vs) overeating
  66. 食べ過ぎる
    たべすぎる
    to overeat
  67. 食道
    しょくどう
    esophageal
  68. 遊食
    ゆうしょく
    (vs) living in idleness
  69. 食べ難い
    たべにくい
    difficult to eat
  70. 面食い
    めんくい
    attracted by physical looks only
  71. 飽食
    ほうしょく
    gluttony, satiation, engorgement
  72. 餌食
    えじき
    prey, victim
  73. 歯を食いしばる
    はをくいしばる
    to bear up in tragedy, to stand pain well, to hold one's temper
Kanji Character : 食
Kuten Encoding : 3109
SJIS Encoding : 3f29
Unicode Encoding : 98df
Old Nelson Index : 5154
Radical Number : 184
Frequency Ranking : 289
Gakken Index : 269
Grade Level : 2
Halpern Index : 2075
Heisig Index : 1472
Henshall Index : 146
New Nelson Index : 6674
O'Neil Index : 1159
Stroke Count : 9
Spahn & Hadamitzky Kanji Dictionary Index : 8b0.1
Spahn & Hadamitzky Radical Strokes : 8
Spahn & Hadamitzky Other Strokes : 0
Spahn & Hadamitzky Character ID : b
Spahn & Hadamitzky kanji Number : 1
Spahn & Hadamitzky Kanji & Kana Index : 322
SKIP Code : 2-2-7
De Roo Code : 2865
Four Corner Code : 8073.2
Korean reading : sa
Pinyin reading : si4
Morohashi Index String : 44014
Morohashi Volume and Page String : 12.0371
Morohashi Index Number : 44014
Morohashi Page : 371
Morohashi Volume : 12
Dictionary Codes
  1. R2865
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