| 食 | ||
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| 食 (U+98DF) "eat, food" | ||
| Pronunciations | ||
| Pinyin: | shí | |
| Bopomofo: | ㄕˊ | |
| Wade–Giles: | shi2 | |
| Cantonese Yale: | sik6 | |
| Jyutping: | sik6 | |
| Japanese Kana: | 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 | |
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Radical 184 or radical eat (食部) meaning "eat" or "food" is one of the 11 Kangxi radicals (214 radicals in total) composed of 9 strokes.
In the Kangxi Dictionary, there are 403 characters (out of 49,030) to be found under this radical.
食 is also the 185th indexing component in the Table of Indexing Chinese Character Components predominantly adopted by Simplified Chinese dictionaries published in mainland China, with the simplified left component form 饣 and its traditional form 飠 listed as its associated indexing components.