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.
When you have a cold, eating rice porridge is gentle on the stomach.
I made rice porridge for breakfast.
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.
In Zen temples, breakfast (shuku) is an important meal for the monks in training.
Since I had a fever, I cooked some easy-to-digest rice porridge.
The sick person slowly slurped down the rice porridge.
plain rice porridge; unflavored rice gruel
rice porridge divination; harvest divination during Koshōgatsu
gruel stick; wand used in New Year gruel ritual
mochi added to rice gruel on the 15th of the first month
living on rice gruel; subsisting on thin rice porridge
sweet potato rice gruel · historical banquet gruel with yam and ivy broth
tea gruel; tea-flavored rice porridge
Kana spelling is common in everyday writing, especially when the kanji is considered difficult or unnecessary.