Kanji

Stroke count: 11

Meaning: eat

Kunyomi: く.う くらわ.す

Onyomi: タン

Composition:

Radical

Radical:

Meaning: mouth, opening

Examples

Onyomi Examples

タンカ caustic words

呵を切る タンカヲキル to speak sharply (e.g. during a heated discussion or argument)

ケンタン gluttony, voracity

Kunyomi Examples

食う くう to eat, to live, to make a living, to survive, to bite, to sting (as insects do), to tease, to torment, to taunt, to make light of, to make fun of, to encroach on, to eat into, to consume, to defeat a superior, to threaten a position, to consume time and-or resources, to receive something (usu. an unfavourable event), to have sexual relations with a woman, esp. for the first time