しょくどう
Meanings
Noun
1. dining room; dining hall; cafeteria; canteen; messroom
2. restaurant; eatery; snack bar; diner
Kanji used
eat
assembly hall
Pitch accent
しょ
くどう
Top 3300
Composed of
food; foodstuff; eating; appetite; meal; portion
temple; shrine; hall; company; (arch.) front room
Used in vocabulary (7 in total)
cheap restaurant; eating place (house)
Kodomo Shokudō; project to provide free or inexpensive meals to impoverished Japanese children
cafeteria; snack bar; lunch counter
living room-cum-dining room
Examples (14 in total)
Where is the cafeteria?
The cafeteria was crowded.
The living room adjoins the dining room.