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食う
Reading くう
to eat
- 1 to eat
- 2 to live, to make a living, to survive
- 3 to bite, to sting (as insects do)
- 4 to tease, to torment, to taunt, to make light of, to make fun of
- 5 to encroach on, to eat into, to consume
- 6 to defeat a superior, to threaten a position
- 7 to consume time, to consume resources
- 8 to receive something (usu. an unfavourable event)
- 9 to have sexual relations with a woman, esp. for the first time
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Kanji used
例文 · examples
不意打ちを食らった。
I was thrown off guard.
sense 8 · to receive something (usu. an unfavourable event)
武士は食わねど高楊枝。
A samurai, even when he has not eaten, uses a toothpick like a lord.
sense 1 · to eat
大型車はガソリンを食う。
Large cars use lots of gas.
sense 7 · to consume time
大魚は小魚を食う。
The great fish eat the small.
sense 1 · to eat
喧嘩のそば杖を食った。
I got involved in other people's quarrel.
sense 8 · to receive something (usu. an unfavourable event)