食, a compound ideograph resembling an ancient food utensil, serves as a semantic component to form characters such as 饥, 饿, 饭, 饮, 饲, 饼, 饺, 餐, 餍, 飨 and so on.
In modern Chinese 食 means:
1.to eat
2.food
3.edible
食 serves as a semantic component to express meanings related to eating or food, and tt can be written as ?, 飠or 饣.
Characters formed by the semantic component 食
飢餓飯飲飼餅餃餐饜饗
jī è fàn yǐn sì bǐng jiǎo cān yàn xiǎng
| 笔划 | 汉字 | 拼音 | 笔划 | 汉字 | 拼音 |
| 3 | 饣 | shí | 5 | 饤 | dìng |
| 5 | 饥 | jī | 6 | 饦 | tuō |
| 6 | 饧 | xíng | 7 | 饬 | chì |
| 7 | 饭 | fàn | 7 | 饪 | rèn |
| 7 | 饨 | tun | 7 | 饩 | xì |
| 7 | 饮 | yìn,yǐn | 7 | 饫 | yù |
| 8 | 饱 | bǎo | 8 | 饳 | duǒ |
| 8 | 饯 | jiàn | 8 | 饰 | shì |
| 8 | 饲 | sì | 8 | 饴 | yí |
| 9 | 饼 | bǐng | 9 | 饵 | ěr |
| 9 | 饹 | gē,le | 9 | 饸 | hé |
| 9 | 饺 | jiǎo | 9 | 饶 | ráo |
| 9 | 饻 | xī | 9 | 饷 | xiǎng |
| 10 | 饽 | bō | 10 | 饾 | dòu |
| 10 | 饿 | ě | 10 | 馂 | jùn |
| 10 | 馁 | něi | 10 | 馀 | yú |
| 11 | 馆 | guǎn | 11 | 馃 | guǒ |
| 11 | 馄 | hún | 11 | 馅 | xiàn |
| 12 | 馇 | chā | 12 | 馋 | chán |
| 12 | 馉 | gǔ | 12 | 馈 | kuì |
| 12 | 馊 | sōu | 13 | 馎 | bó |
| 13 | 馏 | liú,liù | 13 | 馍 | mó |
| 13 | 馐 | xiū | 13 | 馌 | yè |
| 14 | 馑 | jǐn | 14 | 馒 | mán |
| 15 | 馓 | sǎn | 15 | 馔 | zhuàn |
| 25 | 馕 | náng,nǎng |