Character: 食
Modern (Beijing) reading: shí
Preclassic Old Chinese: lǝk
Classic Old Chinese: lǝk
Western Han Chinese: lǝk
Eastern Han Chinese: źǝk
Early Postclassic Chinese: źɨk
Middle Postclassic Chinese: źɨk
Late Postclassic Chinese: źɨk
Middle Chinese: źik
English meaning : to eat
Russian meaning[s]: 1) пища, еда; питание; есть, питаться; кормиться; 2) ист. кормление, содержание (чиновника); 3) затмение (солнца, луны); 4) растравлять; возбуждать; 5) нарушать; 6) Ши (фамилия); [sì] кормить
Comments: Also read *lhǝk-s, MC zjɨ̀ (FQ JY 祥吏) 'to feed, give to eat' (later usually written as 飼 in that meaning).
Radical: 184
Four-angle index: 5787
Karlgren code: 0921 a-c
Jianchuan Bai: (-cɛ6), jɨ6
Dali Bai: (-ci6), jɨ6
Bijiang Bai: ji4
Shijing occurrences: 18.1, 18.2_, 18.3, 58.2, 58.4
