also: いちじき
one meal
General term for a single meal, often used when counting meals or referring to a meal as a unit.
I'll be fine even if I skip one meal today.
Calculate the calories per meal.
one meal a day
Only with reading いちじき
Buddhist term for the ascetic practice of eating only one meal per day, read as いちじき.
The monk in training observes the practice of eating one meal a day.
一食 (one meal) is pronounced identically to 一色 (one color; all one thing) but refers to a single meal, not color or dominant mood.
Standard kanji spelling for the common reading いっしょく.
Rare reading used in Buddhist contexts for the practice of eating one meal a day.
Compound of 一 (one) and 食 (meal/eating). The reading いちじき is an older, specialized Buddhist reading.