Chinese Character 食 Meanings and components.

Form

食

食 meaning^[3] in English

To Eat.

Food.

Animal Feed.

By analyzing its shape, the hanzi^[2] character 食 can be seen as a composition of 2 main shapes where their meanings are man (人) , and good (良)

No radical has been identified in it.

To write食shi2to eat you should write a combination of 人ren2man , 良liang2good

人 + 良 = 食

The order of the strokes to write 食 should be followed in this specific way.

The composition tree, or the characters that form each component of 食, looks as follow:

Meaning^[3]: To Eat . Food . Animal Feed . Eclipse

Meaning^[3]: Man . Person . People . Cl:個|个[Ge4],位[Wei4]

Meaning^[3]: Good . Very . Very Much

Meaning^[3]: 'Dot' Radical In Chinese Characters (Kangxi Radical 3) . See Also 點|点[Dian3]

Meaning^[3]: Blunt . Tough . Chewy