Radicals › #184 食
食
食 — the “eat” radical
the left-side 飠/食 — food, meals 10 of the JLPT kanji on this site are built with it — recognizing the piece makes them far easier to remember.
Kanji using the 食 radical (10)
食eat, food館building, mansion養foster, bring up飲drink, smoke飯meal, boiled rice飾decorate, ornament飼domesticate, raise飢hungry, starve餓starve, hungry飽sated, tired of
Radicals (部首, bushu) are the shared building blocks of kanji, used to sort them in every dictionary. Learn the common ones and new kanji stop looking random.
