食糧

しょくりょう · shokuryou · JLPT N3 · noun

commissariat

🍚🥫 食糧 = eat (食) + grain/provisions (糧): food stocked to live on

食 is the eating character from 食べる; 糧 has the rice radical 米 plus 量 (quantity), so it literally reads as a measured amount of rice. Together: staple food supplies, as in 食糧不足, a food shortage.

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