喰

Meaning

喰 centers on consuming something: eating food, drinking, or figuratively taking in an impact such as receiving a blow. It is a kokuji created in Japan to express eating and drinking more vividly.

• 漆喰しっくい

  mortar; plaster; stucco

• 仙台虫喰せんだいむしくい

  eastern crowned warbler (Phylloscopus coronatus)

• 喰いタンくいタン

  tanyao with open melds (not allowed in some rules); open tanyao

• 喰付くっつき

  three pairs in a dealt hand (scoring combination)

• 女喰いおんなくい

  womanizer; philanderer; playboy

• 山椒喰さんしょうくい

  ashy minivet (species of passerine bird, Pericrocotus divaricatus)

• 心喰い虫しんくいむし

  codling moth larva

• 根喰葉虫ねくいはむし

  leaf beetle (of subfamily Donaciinae)

• 稲根喰葉虫いねねくいはむし

  Donacia provostii (species of leaf beetle)

• 端喰はしばみ

  cross-piece joining two or more boards (carpentry)

• 紫片喰むらさきかたばみ

  pink woodsorrel (Oxalis corymbosa)

• 羽衣虫喰はごろもむしくい

  American redstart (Setophaga ruticilla)

• 芋片喰いもかたばみ

  jointed woodsorrel (Oxalis articulata)

• 襤褸団扇船喰虫ぼろうちわふなくいむし

  Uperotus clava (species of shipworm)

• 飯島虫喰いいじまむしくい

  Ijima's leaf warbler (Phylloscopus ijimae); Izu leaf warbler, Ijima's willow warbler; Ijima's warbler

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