► 名詞
食べ物 [(3)たべもの] meaning: food rank: 1
☆ 食べ物を粗末にするな ⇨ Don’t waste food
餌 [(2)えさ] meaning: food rank: 2
☆ 犬の餌 ⇨ Dog food (☛ Animal feeds)
御数 [おかず] meaning: food rank: 2
☆ 今日のおかずは焼き魚だ ⇨ Tonight’s entree is fish (☛ Literally “a side dish that accompanies rice” because rice is technically the main diet in Japanese meal. In reality it refers to “entree” in the western meal)
食い物 [(3)くいもの] [coll] [vulgar] [男] meaning: food rank: 2
☆ 何か食い物ある？ ⇨ Is there anything to eat?
御馳走 [ごちそう] meaning: food rank: 2
☆ 御馳走様でした ⇨ Thank you very much for the great meal (☛ A common phrase to thank someone who cooked meal for you)
☆ すごいご馳走だね。何かのお祝い？ ⇨ Wow a lot of great food. Are we celebrating something? (☛ Special, expensive food you don’t get to eat usually)
食品 [しょくひん] [liter] meaning: food rank: 2
☆ 食品添加物 ⇨ Food additives
☆ 加工食品 ⇨ Processed food (☛ Individual food items, especially as merchandise)
食料 [(3)しょくりょう] [liter] meaning: food rank: 2
☆ 殆どの人達は非常時の食料の備えがない ⇨ Most people don’t have any stock of emergency food (☛ Food as necessity for human survival)
☆ 行方不明の登山者は数日分の食料しか携行していない ⇨ The missing climbers carry only a few days worth of food (☛ Food as necessity for human survival)
和食 [わしょく] meaning: food rank: 2
☆ 私は和食が好きだ ⇨ I like Japanese food (☛ Traditional Japanese food)
食物 [(3)しょくもつ] [tech] meaning: food rank: 3
☆ 食物連鎖 ⇨ A food chain
食用 [しょくよう] meaning: food rank: 3
☆ 食用油 ⇨ Edible, cooking, oil (☛ Something for human consumption)
食料品 [しょくりょうひん] [liter] meaning: food rank: 3
☆ 食料品店 ⇨ Grocery stores (☛ Food as commodities)
残飯 [ざんぱん] meaning: food rank: 4
☆ 猫が残飯を漁っている ⇨ Cats are scavenging for discarded food (☛ Leftover, discarded, food)
主食 [しゅしょく] meaning: food rank: 4
☆ 日本人は米を主食としてきた ⇨ Rice has been the main diet for Japanese
副食 [ふくしょく] meaning: food rank: 4
☆ 日本では米が主食で肉は副食と位置付けされている ⇨ In Japan rice is classified as a main diet, meat as a sub diet
まんま [(1)まんま] [おまんま] [coll] [vulgar] meaning: food rank: 4
☆ このままではおまんまの食い上げだ ⇨ At this rate we will lose our food, won’t be able to sustain lives
► 接尾辞
食 [しょく] [liter] meaning: food rank: 2
☆ 非常食 ⇨ Emergency, survival, food
丁 [(1)ちょう] meaning: food rank: 4
☆ ラーメン二丁御願いします ⇨ Two ramens please (☛ A generic unit for food)
☆ 豆腐一丁 ⇨ One tofu chunk (☛ A unit for tofu)