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Meanings
Noun
1. food; foodstuff
2. eating; appetite
when read as "しょく"
Counter
Noun
3. meal; portion
when read as "しょく"
Kanji used
eat
Pitch accent
Used in vocabulary (17 in total)
prey; victim
meat eating; eating of meat; meat diet; carnivorous
eating strange food; eating bizarre things; simple diet; plain food; eating meat (thus breaking Buddhist rules)
Examples (6 in total)
Tom is particular about what he eats.
Do you wash your hands before meals?
He furnished food to the hungry.
I bought a loaf of bread at the baker's.
That restaurant prepares two thousand meals every day.
I bought a loaf of bread for breakfast.