蝕

Readings

Kana: ショク、むしば.む

Romaji: shoku, mushiba.mu

Kana

Romaji

Meanings

eclipse, occultation, be defective

Stroke Diagram

Kanji Info

Stroke Count: 14

Radical Number: 184

Frequency:

Grade:

Skip Pattern: 1-8-6

Korean Reading: sig

Chinese Reading: shi2

Unicode: 8755

JIS: 3F2A

Indexes

Halpern Index: 1796

Nelson Index: 5165

Words

食 (しょく)

meal; (one's) diet; food; foodstuff; foodstuffs; eclipse (solar, lunar, etc.)

月食 (げっしょく)

lunar eclipse

う蝕 (うしょく)

dental caries; tooth decay

防食剤 (ぼうしょくざい)

an anti-corrosive (agent)

分蝕 (ぶんしょく)

partial eclipse

蝕む (むしばむ)

to be worm-eaten; to be eaten by worms; to affect adversely; to spoil; to ruin; to undermine; to gnaw at (one's heart, body, etc.); to eat into; to destroy

腐食 (ふしょく)

corrosion; saprophagy

水食 (すいしょく)

(water) erosion

防食 (ぼうしょく)

protection against corrosion

風食 (ふうしょく)

wind erosion

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