食 Radical 184 — food; to eat
shí (second tone, rising)
food; to eat
Radical 1849 strokes0 characters
Also written 饣 · 飠 — the same radical in a different position inside the character.
Where the shape comes from
A lid over a bowl of grain: the pointed top is the cover being lifted, and what sits beneath it is a footed vessel of cooked food. Reduced to 饣 on the left, it marks eating and everything served: 饭, 饺, 馆, 饿.
characters filed under 食
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