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食事

しょくじ

meal, dinner

Mnemonic

A lid over a heaped dish and a matter being conducted. Not the food: the event. Shock しょく, gee じ, everybody sat down at once with the phones face down: しょくじ.

Worth knowing

食事する is to have a meal. ご飯 ごはん is the everyday word for it.

Built from

eat, food
A lid sitting over a heaped dish.
thing, matter
A hand gripping a banner, an affair being conducted, not an object.

Words sharing these kanji

to eat to eat, to live on thing, incident work, job important, precious fact, truth safely, peacefully affair, case reply circumstances, conditions situation, state of affairs splendid, admirable

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