food; a meal; animal feed; grain; things to eat

to eat; to consume; to have a meal

(bound form) eclipse of the sun or moon

(literary) to feed a person or animal; to give food to others

used in historical names, such as 郦食其 lì​yì​jī

a Chinese surname

the 184th of the 214 Kangxi radicals (food radical)

to break or go back on (one's word), as in 食言 shí​yán