Japanese symbol for “snacking”
間食
かんしょく
Romaji: kanshoku
eating between meals; snacking
In Japanese, snacking is 間食, read かんしょく (kanshoku).
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Meanings
- n, vi, vs eating between meals; snacking
Kanji and stroke order
Other Japanese words for “snacking”
| Word | Reading | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 間食い | あいだぐい aidagui | eating between meals; snacking |
Related words
Words that share a kanji.
| Word | Reading | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 時間 | じかん jikan | time |
| 人間 | にんげん ningen | human being; human; person |
| 期間 | きかん kikan | period; term; interval |
| 年間 | ねんかん nenkan | (period of) a year |
| 仲間 | なかま nakama | companion; fellow; friend |
| 間違い | まちがい machigai | mistake; error; blunder |
| 食事 | しょくじ shokuji | meal (e.g. lunch, dinner) |
| 食品 | しょくひん shokuhin | food; food products; foodstuffs |
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.