食い
Meanings
Noun
1. eating
2. bite (in fishing)
Other spellings
くい
Kanji used
Pitch accent
くい
Used in vocabulary
共食い
cannibalism (in animals); feeding on each other; cannibalization; mutually harmful competition; internecine struggle; dog-eat-dog competition; suicidal conflict
Noun
虫食い
worm-eaten; moth-eaten; holes eaten in clothing, leaves, etc. by caterpillars, moths, etc.; leaf warbler (any bird of genus Phylloscopus); chiffchaff; willow wren
No-adjective
食い込み
digging into (e.g. one's skin); cutting into; inroads (e.g. into a market); encroachment (e.g. on territory); eating into (e.g. an opponent's electoral base); deficit; loss
Noun