食

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Contents 1 Translingual 1.1 Alternative forms 1.2 Etymology 1.3 Han character 1.3.1 See also 1.3.2 Derived terms 1.3.3 References 2 Cantonese 2.1 Hanzi 3 Japanese 3.1 Etymology 1 3.1.1 Noun 3.2 Etymology 2 3.2.1 Noun 3.3 Etymology 3 3.3.1 Noun 3.4 Noun 3.5 Noun 3.6 Kanji 3.6.1 Readings 3.6.2 Compounds 3.6.3 Usage notes 4 Korean 4.1 Hanja 5 Mandarin 5.1 Hanzi 6 Middle Chinese 6.1 Han character 7 Vietnamese 7.1 Han character

[edit] Translingual

Stroke order

[edit] Alternative forms

• 𠊊
• trad. 飠, simpl. 饣 (when used as a left Chinese radical)

[edit] Etymology

Phono-semantic compound (形聲): phonetic 亼 + semantic 皀

Pictogram (象形): a mouth over a bowl of rice on a stand. While the current form is 人+良, the lower part (bowl of rice on a stand) is cognate to 皀, not to 良 or 艮.^[1]

Oracle bone script	Bronze inscriptions	Large seal script	Small seal script

[edit] Han character

食 (radical 184 食+0, 9 strokes, cangjie input 人戈日女 (OIAV), four-corner 8073₂)

1. eat
2. meal
3. food
4. KangXi radical number 184

[edit] See also

• 喫, 吃
• 召
• 頂

[edit] Derived terms

• Index:Chinese radical/食

[edit] References

• KangXi: page 1415, character 29
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 44014
• Dae Jaweon: page 1939, character 10
• Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 7, page 4440, character 1
• Unihan data for U+98DF

• Notes:

1. ^ "Etymology: 食." URL accessed on 2008-06-16.

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[edit] Cantonese

[edit] Hanzi

食 (Yale sik6)

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[edit] Japanese

[edit] Etymology 1

Unbound apophonic form uke.

[edit] Noun

食 (hiragana うか, romaji uka)

1. food
2. grain

[edit] Etymology 2

uka + i > uke₂ > uke. Bound apophonic form uka.

[edit] Noun

食 (hiragana うけ, romaji uke)

1. food

[edit] Etymology 3

Cognate with ke.

[edit] Noun

食 (hiragana け, romaji ke)

1. food

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食 (hiragana し, romaji shi)

1. food

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食 (hiragana しょく, romaji shoku)

1. a meal
2. foodstuff
3. an eclipse

[edit] Kanji

食 (grade 2 kanji)

[edit] Readings

• On: しょく (shoku), し (shi), じき (jiki)
• Kun: くう (食う kuu), くらう (食らう kurau), たべる (食べる taberu), はむ (食む hamu), すく (食く suku), おし (食し oshi), おす (食す osu), たぐ (食ぐ tagu), たぶ (食ぶ tabu), うか (食 uka), うけ (食 uke), け (食 ke), し (食 shi)

[edit] Compounds

食塩 食事 食餌 食卓 食中毒 食道 食堂 食費

食品 食物 (しょくもつ) 食べ物 軽食 日食 月食 気に食わない/気にくわない (きにくわない, ki ni kuwanai) 皆既食

食尽 食欲 侵食 浸食 腐食

[edit] Usage notes

When combining, appears in simplified form 飠, as in 飲, but in isolation is not simplified.　Can also appear in alternative form as in 餡.

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[edit] Korean

[edit] Hanja

食
Eumhun:

• Sound (hangeul): 식 (revised: sik, McCune-Reischauer: sik, Yale: sik)

• Name (hangeul): 식()

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[edit] Mandarin

[edit] Hanzi

食 (pinyin shí (shi2), Wade-Giles shih²)

食 (pinyin sì (si4), Wade-Giles si⁴) (to feed)

食 (pinyin yì (yi4), Wade-Giles i⁴) (in certain proper names, e.g. 郦食其)

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[edit] Middle Chinese

[edit] Han character

食 (*jhiək)

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[edit] Vietnamese

[edit] Han character

食 (thực, tự)