喰: eat

eat; devour (variant of 食)

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Kun

くう・くらう

A Japanese-made kanji for 'eat', used in rough or stylized spellings: 喰う, 喰らう, 人喰い. 食 is the standard form.

喰うくうto eat (rough); to devour

喰らうくらうto eat; to receive (a blow)

喰い付くくいつくto bite into; to latch onto

人喰いひとくいman-eating; cannibal

面喰らうめんくらうto be flustered

腹が減はらがへって、朝あさから何なにも喰くっていない。

I'm starving; I haven't eaten anything since morning.

強烈きょうれつなパンチを喰くらって、ボクサーは膝ひざをついた。

Taking a heavy punch, the boxer dropped to his knees.

釣り糸つりいとを垂たらすとすぐ、大おおきな魚さかなが餌えさに喰くい付ついた。

As soon as I dropped my line, a big fish bit the bait.