ショク, むしば.む
eclipse, occultation, be defective

This kanji has 14 strokes: 9 in the "food" radical (しよく) and 5 other strokes.

Sample compounds (2) :


  1. むしばむ
    to eat into (e.g. by worms), to spoil, to ruin, to undermine

  2. うしょく
    tooth decay
Kanji Character : 蝕
Kuten Encoding : 3110
SJIS Encoding : 3f2a
Unicode Encoding : 8755
Old Nelson Index : 5165
Radical Number : 184
Classical Radical Number : 142
Halpern Index : 1796
Heisig Index : 2800
New Nelson Index : 5333
Stroke Count : 14
Spahn & Hadamitzky Character ID :  
SKIP Code : 1-8-6
Four Corner Code : 8573.6
Korean reading : sig
Pinyin reading : shi2
Morohashi Index String : 33264X
Morohashi Volume and Page String : 10.0057
Morohashi Index Number : 33264
Morohashi Page : 57
Morohashi Volume : 10
Morohashi Glyph is not in JIS X 0208 : true

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