給食

Japanese

Kanji in this term
給 食
きゅう
Grade: 4
しょく
Grade: 2
kan’on
給食 (kyūshoku): a school lunch.

Etymology

Ultimately from Middle Chinese 給食 (MC kip zyik, literally “to give, to supply + food, meal”). Sourced from the Chinese work 史記/史记 (Shǐjì, “Records of the Grand Historian”) completed in 91 BCE.[1]

Pronunciation

  • (Tokyo) きゅうしょく [kyùúshókú] (Heiban – [0])[2]
  • IPA(key): [kʲɨᵝːɕo̞kɯ̟ᵝ]

Noun

給(きゅう)食(しょく) • (kyūshoku) ←きふしょく (kifusyoku)?

  1. the provision of a meal
  2. a meal, usually lunch, provided by an organization to attendees or participants, such as by a school to its students or by a company to its employees

Verb

給(きゅう)食(しょく)する • (kyūshoku suru) ←きふしょく (kifusyoku)?intransitive suru (stem 給(きゅう)食(しょく)し (kyūshoku shi), past 給(きゅう)食(しょく)した (kyūshoku shita))

  1. to provide a meal, such as for students or employees

Conjugation

References

  1. Shōgaku Tosho (1988) 国語大辞典(新装版) [Unabridged Dictionary of Japanese (Revised Edition)] (in Japanese), Tōkyō: Shogakukan, →ISBN
  2. Matsumura, Akira, editor (2006), 大辞林 [Daijirin] (in Japanese), Third edition, Tōkyō: Sanseidō, →ISBN

Korean

Hanja in this term
給食

Noun

給食 • (geupsik) (hangeul 급식)

  1. Hanja form? of 급식 (“meal given by an organisation”).
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