粥かゆ

noun

rice porridge; congee; gruel

Thin, watery cooked rice, often eaten when sick or as a light meal. Common in Japanese home cooking and hospital food.

• 風邪かぜのときは、お粥かゆを食たべると胃いに優やさしい。

  When you have a cold, eating rice porridge is gentle on the stomach.

• 朝ちょう食しょくに粥かゆを作つくった。

  I made rice porridge for breakfast.

noun

breakfast (in Zen temples)

Only with reading しゅく

Specific to Zen Buddhist monastic context; refers to the morning meal, traditionally rice porridge. Reading is しゅく.

• 禅ぜん寺でらでは、粥しゅくは修しゅ行ぎょう僧そうの大たい切せつな食しょく事じです。

  In Zen temples, breakfast (shuku) is an important meal for the monks in training.