Radical 184


Radical 184 or radical eat meaning "eat" or "food" is one of the 11 Kangxi radicals composed of 9 strokes.
In the Kangxi Dictionary, there are 403 characters to be found under this radical.
食 is also the 185th indexing component in the Table of Indexing Chinese Character Components predominantly adopted by Simplified Chinese dictionaries published in mainland China, with the simplified left component form 饣 and its traditional form 飠 listed as its associated indexing components.

Variant forms

This radical character has different forms in different languages when used as an individual character and as a component.
Traditionally, when used as an individual character, its third stroke is printed as either a horizontal line or a vertical line, but more often written as a slanted dot ; when used as a left component, it is usually printed as ? and written as 飠 in regular script.
In China, xin zixing adopted the handwritten form 食 and 飠 and applies it also to printing typefaces. This change is applied chiefly to Traditional Chinese publications in mainland China; the left component form 飠 was already replaced by the simplified form prior to the printing typeface reform. Taiwan's Standard Form of National Characters and Hong Kong's List of Graphemes of Commonly-Used Chinese Characters use 食 and 飠 as the standard forms, while other alternative forms are still rather prevalent in publishing.
In modern Japanese, 食 and ? are seen as the traditional/orthodox forms. The shinjitai reform changed the third stroke in 食 as an individual character or as a non-left component to a short horizontal line ; changed the left component form ? to 飠. In principle, these changes apply only to jōyō kanji ; the traditional form is used for hyōgai kanji.
Kangxi Dict.
Korean		JapaneseTrad. Chinese
Trad. Chinese
Simp. Chinese
食食食食食
飼飼飼飼饲
饉饉饉饉馑
饕饕饕饕饕