食い

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Japanese

Kanji in this term

Grade: 2
kun'yomi
For pronunciation and definitions of 食い – see the following entry.
くい
(informal) eating, grubbing up
(fishing) bite
stem or continuative form of くう (kuu)
(This term, 食い, is an alternative spelling of the above term.)