The Chinese Radical: 食


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Meaning
eat, food    食

Explanation A person 人 needs something good 良 to eat, whereby the two bottom lines can perhaps also be seen as chopsticks.

Used in these characters:
HSK 1
cooked rice, food, cuisine, meal
fàn
Left: to eat 饣/食 (Below the cover is good 良 food.), right: oppose/opposite 反 (Climbing the cliff 厂 by hand 又? I am opposing)
To eat? I oppose, unless it is cooked rice!
HSK 2
guest house, lodge, restaurant, embassy, consulate
guǎn
Left: to eat 饣/食 (Below the cover is good 良 food.), right: government 官 (Under one roof 宀 with connected ノ rooms 吕)
Where you get food from a 'government' is in a guesthouse.
HSK 3
to drink
yǐn
Left: food 饣/食 (Below the cover is good 良 food.), right: lack 欠 (A yawning person 人 is lacking sth.)
If food is lacking, you (instead) have to drink.
饿
HSK 3
to be hungry, hungry
è
Left: eat 饣/食, right: I,myself 我 (In my hand 手 a halberd 戈 and I am: me/myself.)
I eat myself, when I am hungry.
HSK 3
to eat till full, sated, satisfied
bǎo
Left: food 饣/食, right: wrap 包 (The wrap 勹 itself 己 makes it to be wrapped.)
If the food is 'enwrapped' (= in my stomach), I am full/sated.
HSK 4
eat, meal
cān
Top: 歺 (Variation of meat 月/肉 with a fork 卜), hand 又, bottom: food 食
Take the meat with the fork in your hand to eat it.
HSK 4
cake, cookie, pastry
bǐng
Left: food 饣/食 (Below the cover is good 良 food.), right: combine 并 (When coming out 丷 the gate 开 of a buddh. temple you shall be united.)
The food, that unites (combines) is the: cake.
HSK 4
dumplings with meat filling
jiǎo
Left: eat 饣/食, right: exchange, crossing 交 (six 六 crosses 㐅)
The food with an exchange (= of the dough vs. filling) are the dumplings.
HSK 5
decoration, ornament, adorn, conceal
shì
Left: food 饣/食, right: lying person , cloth 巾
If the food is laid on a cloth, it is: a decoration.
HSK 5
to eat, food, to feed
shí, sì
Top: a cover , below: good 良
A cover is put on the good food.
HSK 5
good, very, very much
liáng
The same character 良 with a lid would be food 食
Take the lid from the food: it looks good!
HSK 5
steamed bread, dumplings
mán
Leaft: eating 饣/食, right: handsome 曼 (.. when the sun 日 shines on the eyes 罒 with long eyelashes 又)
(gentle preparation:) For the food it is handsome: the steamed dumpling.
HSK 6
to raise, to rear, to feed

Left: food 饣/食 (Under the cover is good 良 food.), right: administration 司 (... where sb. is sitting in a corner ⌝ throwing a sheet 一 of paper in the wastebasket 口)
(when breeding animal) You need food and "management" for raising.
HSK 6
hungry

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

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