食 · shí

food; to eat

Radical pronunciation

Radical summary

#184

Kangxi

9

Strokes

#47

Frequency

Visual hint

Food in a container; the simplified left-side form is 饣.

Often relates to eating, food, hunger, fullness, or taste.

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Trace the radical, simplified, traditional, and variant forms when available.

食饣飠

3 examples

饭

fàn

rice; meal

HSK 1

饱

bǎo

full from eating

HSK 3

饿

è

hungry

HSK 1

The radical 食/饣 is central to food and eating-related characters.

When you see 饣 on the left, think food or hunger/fullness.

良: The full 食 shares some strokes with 良; 饣 is the common left-side variant of 食.

What is the radical in the character 饭?