食

Derived terms

 * Appendix:Chinese radical/食

Glyph origin

 * 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 . This is more visible in the form.

Shuowen: ; see.

Etymology 1
From.

Definitions

 * 1)  to eat; to have a meal; to take in
 * 2)  to drink
 * 3)  to take in; to inhale; to smoke
 * 4)  to consume; to use up
 * 5)  to extract; to extort; to absorb; to swallow
 * 6)  to absorb; to get into; to enter; to be stuck inside
 * 7)  to capture
 * 8)  to receive; to be affected by; to be on the receiving end
 * 9)  to hit on; to flirt
 * 10)  meal; food
 * 11)  edible
 * 1)  to extract; to extort; to absorb; to swallow
 * 2)  to absorb; to get into; to enter; to be stuck inside
 * 3)  to capture
 * 4)  to receive; to be affected by; to be on the receiving end
 * 5)  to hit on; to flirt
 * 6)  meal; food
 * 7)  edible
 * 1)  to receive; to be affected by; to be on the receiving end
 * 2)  to hit on; to flirt
 * 3)  meal; food
 * 4)  edible
 * 1)  meal; food
 * 2)  edible
 * 1)  edible

Usage notes

 * When playing mahjong in Cantonese, a player may say this word as a call when winning from another player's discard.

Etymology 2
The *s- causative of Etymology 1.

Etymology 3
reconstructs Proto-Southern Min and tentatively reconstructs 🇨🇬 (in Norman's system).

While often considered as the vernacular counterpart to etymology 1, it is unlikely to be related to etymology 1. suggests it derives from (probably based on Norman's unpublished manuscripts).

Definitions

 * 1)  to eat; to have a meal; to take in
 * 2)  to drink
 * 3)  to take in; to inhale; to smoke
 * 4)  to embezzle; to misappropriate
 * 5)  to capture
 * 6)  to consume; to use up
 * 7)  to suffer; to endure; to bear
 * 8)  to chow
 * 9)  to dine at
 * 10)  to rely on; to depend on
 * 11)  to engage in; to undertake; to do
 * 12)  to live; to grow up
 * 13)  to pick on; to bully; to push around
 * 14)  to make a decision; to resolve to
 * 15)  to colour; to dye
 * 16)  cuisine
 * 17)  to be eaten away
 * 1)  to engage in; to undertake; to do
 * 2)  to live; to grow up
 * 3)  to pick on; to bully; to push around
 * 4)  to make a decision; to resolve to
 * 5)  to colour; to dye
 * 6)  cuisine
 * 7)  to be eaten away
 * 1)  to be eaten away
 * 1)  to be eaten away
 * 1)  to be eaten away

Usage notes

 * When playing mahjong in Hokkien, a player may say this word as a call when forming a chowing another player's discard.

Etymology 4
From 🇨🇬 or. While sometimes considered as the vernacular counterpart to etymology 1, it may be from.

Kanji

 * 1) to eat
 * 2) a meal

Readings
From ; compare :

From ; compare :

From ; compare :

From native roots:

Etymology 1
Unbound apophonic form.

Noun

 * 1) food
 * 2) grain

Etymology 2
uka + i → uke2 → uke. Bound apophonic form.

Noun

 * 1) food

Etymology 3
Cognate with.

Noun

 * 1) food

Etymology 4
From.

Noun

 * 1) a meal
 * 2) foodstuff

Etymology 5
From, originally the same word in 🇨🇬 as.

First attested in the of 927.

Noun

 * 1)    eclipse

Etymology 1
From.

Etymology 2
Related to.

Etymology 3
From.