Kanji topic · 7 kanji

Kanji for food and drink

Kanji for eating and drinking that you will see on every Japanese menu: 食べる (taberu, to eat), 飲む (nomu, to drink), ご飯 (gohan, rice or a meal) and お茶 (ocha, tea).

• 食

  Eat, Food N5

  On しょく、じき

  Kun くう、くらう、たべる、はむ

• 飲

  Drink, Smoke, Take N4

  On いん、おん

  Kun のむ、-のみ

• 肉

  Meat N4

  On にく

  Kun しし

• 飯

  Meal, Boiled Rice N4

  On はん

  Kun めし

• 茶

  Tea N4

  On ちゃ、さ

• 味

  Flavor, Taste N4

  On み

  Kun あじ、あじわう

• 料

  Fee, Materials N4

  On りょう

Kanji readings, meanings and frequency from KANJIDIC2, © Electronic Dictionary Research and Development Group, used under CC BY-SA 4.0. JLPT levels from Jonathan Waller's JLPT resources (CC BY).