Japanese edit

Kanji in this term
しょく
Grade: 2
kan’on
Alternative spelling
蝕する

Etymology edit

is a daiyōji replacing .

Pronunciation edit

Verb edit

(しょく)する (shokusurutransitive or intransitive suru (stem (しょく) (shokushi), past (しょく)した (shokushita))

  1. [from 927] (astronomy) to eclipse (often, but not exclusively, the sun or the moon)
    Synonyms: 日食する (nisshoku suru, to eclipse the sun), 月食する (gesshoku suru, to eclipse the moon)

Inflection edit

References edit

  1. ^ NHK Broadcasting Culture Research Institute, editor (1998), NHK日本語発音アクセント辞典 [NHK Japanese Pronunciation Accent Dictionary] (in Japanese), Tōkyō: NHK Publishing, →ISBN