食

to eat / food / animal feed / eclipse

to feed (a person or animal)

archaic variant of 亼[ji2]

one of the characters used in kwukyel (phonetic "ra"), an ancient Korean writing system

blunt / tough / chewy

one of the Eight Trigrams 八卦[ba1 gua4], symbolizing mountain / ☶ / ancient Chinese compass point: 45° (northeast)

good / very / very much

person; people / CL:個|个[ge4],位[wei4]

(of a bird) to peck at food

lit. not eating for fear of choking (idiom); fig. to cut off one's nose to spite one's face / to avoid sth essential because of a slight risk

solid foods; solids

State Food and Drug Administration (SFDA)

junk food

to eat in (at the restaurant) (contrasted with 外帶|外带[wai4 dai4]) / (restaurant) dine-in service

(of food) to retain in stomach due to indigestion (TCM)

set meal (esp. in a Japanese restaurant)

to feed

to beg while playing the xiao 簫|箫[xiao1] (mouth organ) / cf Wu Zixu 伍子胥[Wu3 Zi3 xu1], destitute refugee from Chu 楚[Chu3], busked in Wu town c. 520 BC, then became a powerful politician

Japanese cuisine