eat; food

Builds 76 distinct compound words — ranked #32 of 100 for productivity.

音 on: ショク・ジキ
訓 kun: た.べる・く.う

Eating and meals. 食事 a meal, 食堂 a canteen, 夕食 dinner.

The ten most common compounds built on 食. Tap any word that leads to another mapped character to follow it.

76compounds built

2,546times those words occur

#46by productivity alone

#46by how often it turns up

Where 食 leads

Other characters from the top 100 that share a word with 食. Each one opens its own map.

物thing食べ物、食物#8 事matter; abstract thing食事#9 後after; behind夕食後#63 過pass; exceed食べ過ぎる#94

Words built on 食

食べるたべる770 uses 食事しょくじ317 uses

夕食ゆうしょく236 uses

食べ物たべもの187 uses

朝食ちょうしょく186 uses

昼食ちゅうしょく162 uses

食物しょくもつ62 uses

食料しょくりょう62 uses

夕食後44 uses

食べ過ぎる34 uses

Counts from the Tanaka Corpus index via Tatoeba, 1,178,504 words of segmented Japanese. Tatoeba sentences are contributed by learners and teachers, so frequencies reflect textbook Japanese rather than a general corpus. Compound readings are generated — from the corpus where it records one, otherwise from a tokenizer — and are omitted rather than guessed where neither resolves the word. Character meanings and on/kun readings are written by hand.