食料品
しょくりょうひん · shokuryouhin · JLPT N4 · noun
grocery
🛒🥫 食料品 = eat + materials + goods: the goods you buy as eating material
食 (shoku) means eat, 料 (ryou) means materials or ingredients, 品 (hin) means goods. 食料 alone is food; adding 品 turns it into items sold in a shop, which is why it means groceries.
料 — rice 米 + dipper 斗
料 combines 米 (rice/grain) with 斗 (a measuring dipper), depicting the act of measuring out grain. From this concrete sense it extended to 'to measure, estimate, anticipate' and to 'materials' (things measured out for use), as in 材料 'materials' and 预料 'to anticipate'.
品 — three 口 (mouth) stacked
品 is an ideogram showing three 口 (mouths or openings) piled together. The repetition of 口 suggests many people, items, or voices, which gave rise to meanings like 'kinds,' 'goods,' 'rank,' and 'to taste/judge.' The triple stacking is a common Chinese device for indicating plurality or variety.