Illustration: In a lived-in apartment kitchen, a parent serves steamed rice into the family’s familiar, mismatched rice bowls while everyone takes their usual place at a low dining table. The side dishes vary from grilled fish to vegetables, but a bowl of rice accompanies every setting.

JLPT N1nounLevel estimated by Bebop

常じょう食しょく

joushoku

staple food, regular diet

Example sentences

牛うしは草くさを常食じょうしょくとする。
Cattle feed on grass.
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その動物どうぶつは肉にくを常食じょうしょくとしている。
That animal feeds on flesh.
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彼女かのじょは野菜やさいと玄米げんまいを常食じょうしょくとしている。
She lives on vegetables and brown rice.
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Kanji in 常食

常usual; ordinaryOnジョウKunつね・とこ-
食eat; foodOnショク・ジキKunくう・くらう・たべる

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