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.
Beijing duck 北京烤鴨
