Chinese Radical 饣 ("Eat", "Food")

Nouns:

食品 food, foodstuff, grocery, provisions

食物 food, meat, eating, eatables

糧食 food, grain, commissariat, provision, foodstuff, cereals

食 food, eclipse, meal

糧 grain, food, provisions

餐 meal, food

飯 rice, meal, food, cooked rice, cuisine

膳食 meal, food

食糧 food, grain

營養品 food, nourishment, diet, sustenance

饌 food, comestible, meal, delicacy, chow, dainty

饋 food

粻 chow, comestible, food, meal, victual, white cooked rice

篹 chow, victual, comestible, dainty, delicate, food

This is an interesting character - Radical 饣 ("Eat", "Food")

饣 is used as a left Chinese radical. Its meaning is "food" or "eat." The productive phonetic is shí (shi2).

饣 is simplified from 食. The pictogram of the traditional form looks like an inverted mouth over a bowl of food (probably rice) on a stand. The current form is 人 + 良 but the lower part is more likely to be related to 皀 rather than to 艮.

In the standard Chinese Kangxi Dictionary, more than 400 characters are found under this radical. In combination with other characters, they certainly produce lots of food-related words.

早饭  zǎo fàn  breakfast 

吃晚饭  chī wǎn fàn  to have dinner 

饭馆  fàn guǎn  restaurant 

旅馆  lǚ guǎn  hotel 

我太饿了！ wǒ tài è le  I am so hungry! 

他很馋。 tā hěn chán  He is gluttonous. 

月饼  yuè bǐng  moon cake

肉馅儿  ròu xiànr  meat filling 

A popular Chinese traditional dish is called 饺子  jiǎozi  dumplings.