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to eat 食
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shows a cover and good 良 (It might be helpful to see the lower two strokes as chopsticks.)
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食
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JLPT 5Joyo 2 |
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| eat, food
taberu, kuu, SHOKU
食
良
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Top: a cover 𠆢, bottom: good 良
A cover is put on the good food.
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飲
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JLPT 5Joyo 3 |
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| drink, swallow
nomu, IN
食
欠
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Left: food/eat 食 (cover  on good 良 food), right: lack 欠 (The mouth wide open ⺈ of the yawning person 人 is lacking [i.e. manners])
If food is lacking, you should drink (instead).
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館
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JLPT 4Joyo 3 |
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| large building, palace, mansion
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Left: eating 食 (cover on good 良 food), right: government 官 (= Under a roof 宀 with straightly connected rooms 呂)
The food from the government is served in a large building.
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飯
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JLPT 4Joyo 4 |
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| a meal, boiled rice
meshi, HAN
食
反
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Left: food 食 (cover on good 良 food), right: against, opposition 反 (Climbing the cliff 厂 by hand 又? I am opposing!)
Food? I'm opposing unless it's boiled rice.
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養
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JLPT 3Joyo 4 |
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| foster, bring up, support, to rear
yashinau, YŌ
羊
食
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Top: sheep 羊 (The horned 丷 animal with a backbone 丨 and laterally protruding due to thick wool 三 is the: sheep), below: food 食 (cover on good 良 food)
A sheep needs food when being fostered.
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餓
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JLPT 1Joyo 7 |
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| starve, being hungry
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Left: food 食 (cover on good 良 food), right: I/myself 我 (with my hand 手 at the halberd 戈: That's me!)
Food for myself, I am starving.
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飢
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JLPT 1Joyo 7 |
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| starve, hunger
ueru, KI
食
凡
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Left: food 食 (cover on good 良 food), right: var. of table (cf.机,凡)
It's related to food, but the table is empty: I am starving.
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飼
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JLPT 1Joyo 5 |
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| domesticate, breeding, rear animals, raise
kau, SHI
食
司
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Left: food 食 (cover on good 良 food), right: govern, civil servant 司 (... where sb. is sitting in a corner⌝ throwing a sheet 一 of paper in the wastebasket 口)
You need food and "management" for animal breeding.
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飾
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JLPT 1Joyo 7 |
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| decorate, ornament, beautify, embellish
kazaru, SHOKU
食
巾
良
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Left: vari. of food 食 (cover on good 良 food), right: horizontal person  , cloth 巾
(A nice table decoration:) For the food the person uses cloth as decoration.
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飽
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JLPT 1Joyo 7 |
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| sated, having eaten enought, satiate, tired of, bored
aku/kiru/kasu, HŌ
食
良
包
勹
己
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Left: food 食 (cover on good 良 food), right: to wrap 包 (The wrap 勹 itself 己 makes it to be wrapped.)
If the food is 'enwrapped' (= in my stomach), I am full/sated.
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餌
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JLPT -Joyo 7 |
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| bait, lure, animal feed
esa, e, JI
食
耳
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Left: food 食 (cover on good 良 food), right: ear 耳
(An pig's ear as bait at the fishing hook?) For getting food you can use an ear as a bait.
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餅
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JLPT -Joyo 7 |
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| mochi, rice cake
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Left: food 食 (cover on good 良 food), right: 并 [out of 丷 [here: two pestles] - [here: 井 as a box like donburi 丼])
(This sticky rice porridge is beaten soft for hours.) The food that is pounded with pestles in a box is: mochi.
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