食べる

Meanings

1. to eat
2. to live on (e.g. a salary); to live off; to subsist on

Part of speech: ichidan verb, transitive

Kanji

• 食

  Meanings

  eat, food

  On reading

  ショク、ジキ

  Kun reading

  く.う、く.らう、た.べる、は.む

  Strokes

  9

Example sentences

• もっと果物を食べるべきです。

  You should eat more fruit.

  Tatoeba #193344 · CC BY 2.0 FR

• 僕は脚本家で食べていく決心をした。

  I am determined to make a living as a playwright.

  Tatoeba #81964 · CC BY 2.0 FR