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[edit] Translingual

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[edit] Etymology

Phono-semantic compound (形聲): phonetic  + semantic 

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

食 食 食 食
Oracle bone script Bronze inscriptions Large seal script Small seal script

[edit] Han character

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

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

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[edit] Derived terms

[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.

[edit] Cantonese

[edit] Hanzi

(Yale sik6)


[edit] Japanese

[edit] Etymology 1

Unbound apophonic form uke.

[edit] Noun

(hiragana うか, romaji uka)

  1. food
  2. grain

[edit] Etymology 2

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

[edit] Noun

(hiragana うけ, romaji uke)

  1. food

[edit] Etymology 3

Cognate with ke.

[edit] Noun

(hiragana , romaji ke)

  1. food

[edit] Noun

(hiragana , romaji shi)

  1. food

[edit] Noun

(hiragana しょく, romaji shoku)

  1. a meal
  2. foodstuff
  3. an eclipse

[edit] Kanji

(grade 2 kanji)

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[edit] Usage notes

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


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Eumhun:

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

[edit] Mandarin

[edit] Hanzi

(pinyin shí (shi2), Wade-Giles shih2)

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

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


[edit] Middle Chinese

[edit] Han character

(*jhiək)


[edit] Vietnamese

[edit] Han character

(thực, tự)