Dated term for the evening meal; in modern Japanese 夕食 (ゆうしょく) or 晩ご飯 (ばんごはん) are far more common. Still encountered in literary or historical contexts.
My grandmother began preparing the evening meal.
The novel depicts a scene where the family has their evening meal around the sunken hearth.
Standard kanji spelling for this dated term.
Search-only kanji form; not a standard spelling.
Rarely used kanji form; normally read ゆうしょく.
Compound of 夕 (ゆう, 'evening') and 餉 (げ, 'meal'). The reading げ for 餉 is an older Sino-Japanese reading; the term is now dated.