食する

Japanese

Kanji in this term
食
しょく
Grade: 2
kan’on
Alternative spelling
蝕する

Etymology

食 is a daiyōji replacing 蝕.

Pronunciation

  • (Tokyo) しょくす​る [shòkúsúꜜrù] (Nakadaka – [3])[1]
  • IPA(key): [ɕo̞kɯ̟ᵝsɨᵝɾɯ̟ᵝ]

Verb

食(しょく)する • (shokusuru) transitive or intransitive suru (stem 食(しょく)し (shokushi), past 食(しょく)した (shokushita))

  1. [from 927] (astronomy) to eclipse (often, but not exclusively, the sun or the moon)
    Synonyms: 日食する (nisshoku suru, “to eclipse the sun”), 月食する (gesshoku suru, “to eclipse the moon”)

Inflection

References

  1. NHK Broadcasting Culture Research Institute, editor (1998), NHK日本語発音アクセント辞典 [NHK Japanese Pronunciation Accent Dictionary] (in Japanese), Tōkyō: NHK Publishing, →ISBN
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