Learn about the eat radical 食/飠
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| Hi everyone. |
| Welcome to the Japanese Kanji video series. |
| In this lesson, you'll learn the "eat" radical. |
| Take a look at these kanji characters. Can you guess what they mean? |
| By the end of this lesson, you'll be able to grasp the meaning behind these kanji characters. |
| 食, 飢, 飯, 飲 |
| First off, can you spot the radical in all of these kanji characters? |
| It's this part here. |
| 食/飠 |
| This particular radical is called... |
| しょく or しょくへん. |
| When it's used on the left side, it's called specifically しょくへん because へん means "left-position" radical. |
| The "eat" radical is used in some of the most common kanji characters. Let's take a look at it in more detail. |
| Meaning |
| As you can see, the "eat" radical is also a kanji character on its own. |
| 食 |
| The meaning behind this particular kanji is "to eat, food." |
| When this radical appears as a part of another kanji, like in these examples, the appearance changes slightly. When it's a component like this, it adds the meaning of "to eat, food" to the entire kanji character. |
| 飢, 飯, 飲 |
| From left to right, the first kanji means "hunger," the second means "food, meal, rice," and the third character means "to drink." |
| 1. 飢 |
| The first kanji has the "eat" radical, paired with this second character. 几 |
| This second character looks like a long, empty table. You could think of this character in this way: if you imagine that it's a table with no food on it, then you might be able to guess the meaning of this kanji. Did you figure it out? It means "hunger." |
| 2. 飯 |
| The second kanji has the "eat" radical means "food, meal, rice." |
| 3. 飲 |
| The last kanji has the "eat" radical and the character 欠, which means "to lack." |
| This kanji means "to drink." You can remember it this way: something that should never be lacking at a meal is a drink. |
| For more ways to remember these characters and many more kanji examples that include the "eat" radical, go to JapanesePod101.com and check the Lesson Notes PDF. OK. Let's move on! |
| Common positions |
| The "eat” radical will usually sit in the left-position and connect with another radical next to it. |
| As seen in the original examples for "hunger," "food, meal, rice," "to drink." |
| When the "eat" radical is part of another kanji character, it's appearance is distorted a little. |
| Okay. Now let's learn how to write this radical. |
| Stroke Order |
| Now let's take a look at the stroke order of the "eat" radical. The "eat" radical looks complicated, but is actually pretty simple. There are nine strokes. |
| When the radical is on its own, it looks like this: |
| 食 |
| Start at the top and make a diagonal stroke from right to left, then another stroke from left to right. |
| For the third stroke, start in the middle under the strokes you've just written, and make a short vertical line down. |
| Make a L shape, starting from left to right, and then down. Underneath make two short horizontal lines. |
| Make a long vertical line on the open ends of the strokes you've just made, and then a short tick at the end. |
| For the eighth stroke, make a short diagonal line from right to left. Finally, make a longer, diagonal line from the middle of the box to the bottom. |
| When this radical is a part of another kanji, it usually takes on the left-position, and the appearance is squished vertically. |
| The major difference is that it's missing one of the final strokes at the bottom of the kanji. |
| 飠 |
| And that's it! You're done! |
| Common Readings |
| When the "eat" radical is on its own, the kanji can be read as... |
| 食 |
| ショク、(ジキ)、く-う、く-らう、た-べる |
| In the case of the original examples, common readings are... |
| キ、う-える |
| 飢 |
| for the kanji meaning "hunger." |
| ハン、めし |
| 飯 |
| for the "food, meal" kanji. And... |
| イン、の-む |
| 飲 |
| for the "to drink" kanji. |
| Lesson Review |
| In this lesson, you learned about the "eat" radical. |
| You also learned the kanji characters for "hunger," "food, meal" and "to drink" in which this radical appears. |
| It's most commonly found in the left-position, making it appear like this. |
| And it's written with 9 strokes. |
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| Thanks for watching. Bye! |
| Bye~! |
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