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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 (5 in total)
usual diet; vegetarian food; vegetarian diet
vegetarian food; vegetarian diet
vegetarian food; vegetarian diet
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.