The Radical: 食


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Meaning
eat, food    食

Explanation

Used in these Kanji:
JLPT HSK 1
cooked rice, food, cuisine, meal
fàn
Left: to eat 饣/ (Below the cover is good food.), right: oppose/opposite (Climbing the cliff by hand ? I am opposing)
To eat? I oppose, unless it is cooked rice!
JLPT HSK 2
guest house, lodge, restaurant, embassy, consulate
guǎn
Left: to eat 饣/ (Below the cover is good food.), right: government (Under one roof with connected rooms )
Where you get food from a 'government' is in a guesthouse.
JLPT HSK 3
to drink
yǐn
Left: food 饣/ (Below the cover is good food.), right: lack (A yawning person is lacking sth.)
If food is lacking, you (instead) have to drink.
饿
JLPT HSK 3
to be hungry, hungry
è
Left: eat 饣/, right: I,myself (In my hand a halberd and I am: me/myself.)
I eat myself, when I am hungry.
JLPT HSK 3
to eat till full, sated, satisfied
bǎo
Left: food 饣/, right: wrap (The wrap itself makes it to be wrapped.)
If the food is 'enwrapped' (= in my stomach), I am full/sated.
JLPT HSK 4
eat, meal
cān
Top: 歺 (Variation of meat / with a fork ), hand , bottom: food
Take the meat with the fork in your hand to eat it.
JLPT HSK 4
cake, cookie, pastry
bǐng
Left: food 饣/ (Below the cover is good food.), right: combine (When coming out the gate of a buddh. temple you shall be united.)
The food, that unites (combines) is the: cake.
JLPT HSK 4
dumplings with meat filling
jiǎo
Left: eat 饣/, right: exchange, crossing (six crosses )
The food with an exchange (= of the dough vs. filling) are the dumplings.
JLPT HSK 5
decoration, ornament, adorn, conceal
shì
Left: food 饣/, right: lying person , cloth
If the food is laid on a cloth, it is: a decoration.
JLPT HSK 5
to eat, food, to feed
shí, sì
Top: a cover , below: good
A cover is put on the good food.
JLPT HSK 5
good, very, very much
liáng
The same character with a lid would be food
Take the lid from the food: it looks good!
JLPT HSK 5
steamed bread, dumplings
mán
Leaft: eating 饣/, right: handsome (.. when the sun shines on the eyes 罒 with long eyelashes )
(gentle preparation:) For the food it is handsome: the steamed dumpling.
JLPT HSK 6
to raise, to rear, to feed

Left: food 饣/ (Under the cover is good food.), right: administration (... where sb. is sitting in a corner ⌝ throwing a sheet of paper in the wastebasket )
(when breeding animal) You need food and "management" for raising.
JLPT HSK 6
hungry

Left: food 饣/ (Below the cover is good food.), right: (empty) table
No food on the empty table: I am hungry.
JLPT HSK 6
abundant, exuberant, to add for free, to forgive, despite
ráo
Left: food 饣/, right: emperor Tang Yao (vari. of halberd , table )
The food and a halberd are on the table: We are in abundance.
JLPT HSK 6
erosion, to nibble, to corrode, eclipse
shí
Left: food 饣/ (Below the cover is good food.), right: insect
The eating/food by an insect is "eating (nibbling) into it", like: corrosion.
JLPT HSK 6
to make a present, offering to the god
kuì
Left: eat 饣/, right: precious, expensive (A blooming flower [simplf. from ] and money are precious)
Food, that is precious is offered as: a present (or offering).
JLPT HSK 6
stuffing, filling, force-meat
xiàn
Left: food 饣/, right: pitfall (falling person over a pit trap [= mortar])
The food that is pressed into a "pitfall", is the stuffing.
JLPT HSK 6
gluttonous, greedy
chán
Left: food 饣/, right: avoid, escape (escaping rabbit with long ear, big eyes 罒, legs but no tail ) and two strokes
In respect to food is rabbit in the grasses : gluttonous.
JLPT HSK 6
cooked food
rèn
Left: food 饣/ (Below the cover is good food.), right: burden (or scholar with a hat)
The food prepared for the scholar with a hat is: cooked food.
JLPT no HSK
soldier's pay, to cater
xiǎng
Left: food 饣/ (Below the cover is good food.), right: in a direction, towards (At the house the window is in: this direction.)
Towards food is directed the: soldier's pay.
JLPT no HSK
pastry, food, to swallow, to lure, bait
ěr
Left: eat 饣/, right: ear
Food (in the volume) of an ear as: a pastry or bait.
JLPT no HSK
to order, to direct, keep in order
chì
Left: food 饣/ (Below the cover is good food.), right: lying person , force
With food the lying person gets strength: as if on order.

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