Keyword
eat
- food
- Frequency
- #328
- Strokes
- 9
- Grade
- 2
- JLPT (old)
- N4
- Heisig
- 1582
Readings
ショク80%
く11%
た6%
ジキ3%
Mnemonic
Every good person seated at mom's table will happily eat every last crumb on the plate, because leftovers would break her heart.
Stroke order
Composed of
Used in kanji
養support growth饗feast飡meal喰feed on (something)飧evening meal飱evening meal餈rice cake餐repast餮voracious饔breakfast饕be greedy饜be satiated
Used in vocabulary
食う
to eat; to live; to make a living; to survive; to bite; to sting (as insects do); to tease; to torment; to taunt; to make light of; …
Godan verb