食
← 183 Radical 184 (U+2FB7) 185 →
食 (U+98DF) "eat, food"
Pronunciations
Pinyin:	shí
Bopomofo:	ㄕˊ
Wade–Giles:	shi2
Cantonese Yale:	sik6
Jyutping:	sik6
JapaneseKana:	ショク shoku (on'yomi) く-う ku-u / た-べる ta-beru (kun'yomi)
Sino-Korean:	식 sik
Hán-Việt:	thực, tự
Names
Chinese name(s):	(Left) 食字旁 shízìpáng (Bottom) 食字底 shízì
Japanese name(s):	食/しょく shoku (Left) 食偏/しょくへん shokuhen
Hangul:	밥 bap
Stroke order animation

Radical 184 orradical eat (食部) meaning"eat" or"food" is one of the 11Kangxi radicals (214 radicals in total) composed of 9strokes.

In theKangxi Dictionary, there are 403 characters (out of 49,030) to be found under thisradical.

食 is also the 185th indexing component in theTable of Indexing Chinese Character Components predominantly adopted bySimplified Chinese dictionaries published inmainland China, with the simplified left component form饣 and its traditional form飠 listed as its associated indexing components.

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  Oracle bone script character
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  Large seal script character
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This radical character has different forms in different languages when used as an individual character and as a component.

Traditionally, when used as an individual character, its third stroke is printed as either a horizontal line (食) or a vertical line (食), but more often written as a slanted dot (食); when used as a left component, it is usually printed as𩙿 and written as飠 inregular script.

In China,xin zixing adopted the handwritten form食 and飠 and applies it also to printing typefaces. This change is applied chiefly to Traditional Chinese publications in mainland China; the left component form飠 was already replaced by the simplified form饣 prior to the printing typeface reform. Taiwan'sStandard Form of National Characters and Hong Kong'sList of Graphemes of Commonly-Used Chinese Characters use食 and飠 (the third stroke is horizontal) as the standard forms, while other alternative forms (e.g.食/𩙿,食/飠) are still rather prevalent in publishing.

In modern Japanese,食 (third stroke is horizontal) and𩙿 are seen as the traditional/orthodox forms. Theshinjitai reform changed the third stroke in食 as an individual character or as a non-left component to a short horizontal line (食); changed the left component form𩙿 to飠. In principle, these changes apply only tojōyō kanji (more specifically,jōyō kanji before 2010 revision; some characters added in 2010 were not simplified); the traditional form is used forhyōgai kanji.

• Fazzioli, Edoardo (1987).Chinese calligraphy : from pictograph to ideogram : the history of 214 essential Chinese/Japanese characters. calligraphy by Rebecca Hon Ko. New York:Abbeville Press.ISBN 0-89659-774-1.

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