食
Kana: しょく
counter for meals
Example sentence
一日に三食食べます。
いちにちにさんしょくたべます。
I eat three meals a day.
What 食 means
食 (しょく) is a Japanese word meaning “counter for meals”. It belongs to the Numbers & Measure topic and appears at Level 3, so it is one of the words worth learning early when you study Japanese.