給食

Japanese

Kanji in this term
きゅう
Grade: 4
しょく
Grade: 2
kan’on

Etymology

Ultimately from Middle Chinese 給食 (MC kip zyik, literally “to give, to supply + food, meal”). Sourced from the Chinese work 史記史记 (Shǐjì, Records of the Grand Historian) completed in 91 BCE.[1]

Pronunciation

  • (Tokyo) きゅうしょく [kyùúshókú] (Heiban – [0])[2]
  • IPA(key): [kʲɨᵝːɕo̞kɯ̟ᵝ]

Noun

(きゅう)(しょく) • (kyūshoku) きふしょく (kifusyoku)?

  1. the provision of a meal
  2. a meal, usually lunch, provided by an organization to attendees or participants, such as by a school to its students or by a company to its employees

Verb

(きゅう)(しょく)する • (kyūshoku suru) きふしょく (kifusyoku)?intransitive suru (stem (きゅう)(しょく) (kyūshoku shi), past (きゅう)(しょく)した (kyūshoku shita))

  1. to provide a meal, such as for students or employees

Conjugation

References

  1. Shōgaku Tosho (1988) 国語大辞典(新装版) [Unabridged Dictionary of Japanese (Revised Edition)] (in Japanese), Tōkyō: Shogakukan, →ISBN
  2. Matsumura, Akira, editor (2006), 大辞林 [Daijirin] (in Japanese), Third edition, Tōkyō: Sanseidō, →ISBN

Korean

Hanja in this term

Noun

給食 • (geupsik) (hangeul 급식)

  1. Hanja form? of 급식 (meal given by an organisation).
This article is issued from Wiktionary. The text is licensed under Creative Commons - Attribution - Sharealike. Additional terms may apply for the media files.