しょく

See also: じょく

Japanese

For pronunciation and definitions of しょく – see the following entries.

【職】5 [noun] employment [noun] (roleplaying games) class; occupation

【食】2 [noun] a meal [noun] foodstuff [noun] [from 927] 食, 蝕: (astronomy) eclipse (often, but not exclusively, of the sun or the moon) Alternative spelling 蝕

【蝕】H [noun] eclipse; erosion, corrosion

【蜀】H [proper noun] Shu (a former state and former dynasty in ancient China)

【色】2 [affix] color (US), colour (everywhere else) [counter] used to count the number of colors

【燭】J [noun] a light (source of illumination) [noun] a candlepower [counter] a candlepower

(This term, しょく (shoku), is the hiragana spelling of the above terms.) For a list of all kanji read as しょく, see Category:Japanese kanji read as しょく.)

(The following entries do not have a page created for them yet: 触, 識, 植, 初句, 諸苦.)