Japanese symbol for “glut”
食傷
しょくしょう
Romaji: shokushou
surfeit; glut; being fed up
In Japanese, glut is 食傷, read しょくしょう (shokushou).
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Meanings
- n, vi, vs surfeit; glut; being fed up
- n, vi, vs food poisoning
Kanji and stroke order
Other Japanese words for “glut”
| Word | Reading | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 荷嵩み | にがさみ nigasami | glut; overstock |
| 荷もたれ | にもたれ nimotare | oversupply; overstock; glut |
Related words
Words that share a kanji.
| Word | Reading | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 食事 | しょくじ shokuji | meal (e.g. lunch, dinner) |
| 食品 | しょくひん shokuhin | food; food products; foodstuffs |
| 食べ物 | たべもの tabemono | food |
| 食料 | しょくりょう shokuryou | food |
| 食べる | たべる taberu | to eat |
| 食う | くう kuu | to eat |
| 負傷 | ふしょう fushou | injury; wound |
| 傷つける | きずつける kizutsukeru | to wound; to injure |
Data: JMdict (CC BY-SA 4.0); KANJIDIC2 (CC BY-SA 4.0); KanjiVG (CC BY-SA 3.0); wordfreq (CC BY-SA 4.0 (data)). Retrieved 2026-10-22.