Word Meaning 食用

しょくよう shokuyou

食用 is read as しょくよう (shokuyou) and means for use as food.

Meaning

English

  1. for use as food
  2. edible

Reading

Kana

しょくよう

Romaji

shokuyou

Stroke Sequence

2 Characters • 14 Total Strokes

Study Signals and Categories

JLPT N4 Jōyō Grade 2 Kanken 9級 Rank 13488 Priority C

Related Vocabulary

Max. 12

食用色素

しょくようしきそ

food coloring

食用油

しょくようあぶら

cooking oil

特定保健用食品

とくていほけんようしょくひん

food for specified health uses (e.g. cholesterol reduction)

食事

しょくじ

diet

食品

しょくひん

food

食料

しょくりょう

food

食べ物

たべもの

food

食物

しょくもつ

food

食堂

しょくどう

restaurant

食べ歩き

たべあるき

trying the food at various restaurants

食料品

しょくりょうひん

foodstuff

Example Sentences

7

This is an edible mushroom.

This fish is unfit to eat.

We have barely enough bread for breakfast.

I bought a loaf of bread for breakfast.

None of the meat was fit to eat.

My mother is making sandwiches for lunch.

Among these there may be new sources of food fish and new species of other creatures.