蝕

蝕 (Kangxi radical 142, 虫+9, 15 strokes, cangjie input 人戈中一戈 (OILMI), four-corner 8573₆, composition ⿰飠虫)

• KangXi: page 1089, character 10
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 33264
• Dae Jaweon: page 1555, character 20
• Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 4, page 2864, character 8
• Unihan data for U+8755

Same word as 食 (OC *lɯɡs, *ɦljɯɡ, “to eat”) (Schuessler, 2007).

蝕

1. to corrode; to erode
2. (astronomy) to eclipse

From 折.

蝕

1. (Cantonese, Hakka, Min Nan) to lose money

   佢五年前做生意蝕咗廿幾萬。 [Cantonese, trad.]
   佢五年前做生意蚀咗廿几万。 [Cantonese, simp.]

   keoi⁵ ng⁵ nin⁴ cin⁴ zou⁶ saang¹ ji³ sit⁶ zo² jaa⁶ gei² maan⁶. [Jyutping]

   (please add an English translation of this example)

2. (Cantonese) to have struck a bad bargain; to be at a disadvantage; to lose out
3. (Cantonese) to wear due to constant fiction

   鞋底已經蝕晒。 [Cantonese, trad.]
   鞋底已经蚀晒。 [Cantonese, simp.]

   haai⁴ dai² ji⁵ ging¹ sit⁶ saai³. [Jyutping]

   (please add an English translation of this example)

• “蝕”, in 漢語多功能字庫 (Multi-function Chinese Character Database)‎, 香港中文大學 (the Chinese University of Hong Kong), 2014–

(uncommon “Hyōgai” kanji)

• Go-on: じき (jiki)
• Kan-on: しょく (shoku)
• Kun: むしばむ (mushibamu, 蝕む)

In modern Japanese, 蝕 is mostly replaced by 食, due to the deprecation of non-tōyō kanji caused by the Japanese script reform.

• 皆既蝕(かいきしょく) (kaikishoku): total eclipse
• 月蝕(げっしょく) (gesshoku): lunar eclipse
• 蝕甚(しょくじん) (shokujin): maximum eclipse
• 侵蝕(しんしょく) (shinshoku): erosion, corrosion
• 浸蝕(しんしょく) (shinshoku): erosion, corrosion (by water)
• 日蝕(にっしょく) (nisshoku): solar eclipse
• 腐蝕(ふしょく) (fushoku): corrosion

蝕(しょく) • (shoku) 

1. eclipse; erosion, corrosion

蝕 • (sik) (hangeul 식, revised sik, McCune–Reischauer sik, Yale sik)

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蝕: Hán Nôm readings: thực

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