饭
JLPT HSK 1

fàn
Left: to eat 饣/食 (Below the cover is good 良 food.), right: oppose/opposite 反 (Climbing the cliff 厂 by hand 又? I am opposing)
To eat? I oppose, unless it is cooked rice!

	馆
JLPT HSK 2

guǎn
Left: to eat 饣/食 (Below the cover is good 良 food.), right: government 官 (Under one roof 宀 with connected ノ rooms 吕)
Where you get food from a 'government' is in a guesthouse.

	饮
JLPT HSK 3

yǐn
Left: food 饣/食 (Below the cover is good 良 food.), right: lack 欠 (A yawning person 人 is lacking sth.)
If food is lacking, you (instead) have to drink.

	饿
JLPT HSK 3

è
Left: eat 饣/食, right: I,myself 我 (In my hand 手 a halberd 戈 and I am: me/myself.)
I eat myself, when I am hungry.

	饱
JLPT HSK 3

bǎo
Left: food 饣/食, right: wrap 包 (The wrap 勹 itself 己 makes it to be wrapped.)
If the food is 'enwrapped' (= in my stomach), I am full/sated.

	餐
JLPT HSK 4

cān
Top: 歺 (Variation of meat 月/肉 with a fork 卜), hand 又, bottom: food 食
Take the meat with the fork in your hand to eat it.

	饼
JLPT HSK 4

bǐng
Left: food 饣/食 (Below the cover is good 良 food.), right: combine 并 (When coming out 丷 the gate 开 of a buddh. temple you shall be united.)
The food, that unites (combines) is the: cake.

	饺
JLPT HSK 4

jiǎo
Left: eat 饣/食, right: exchange, crossing 交 (six 六 crosses 㐅)
The food with an exchange (= of the dough vs. filling) are the dumplings.

	饰
JLPT HSK 5

shì
Left: food 饣/食, right: lying person , cloth 巾
If the food is laid on a cloth, it is: a decoration.

	食
JLPT HSK 5

shí, sì
Top: a cover , below: good 良
A cover is put on the good food.

	良
JLPT HSK 5

liáng
The same character 良 with a lid would be food 食
Take the lid from the food: it looks good!

	馒
JLPT HSK 5

mán
Leaft: eating 饣/食, right: handsome 曼 (.. when the sun 日 shines on the eyes 罒 with long eyelashes 又)
(gentle preparation:) For the food it is handsome: the steamed dumpling.

	饲
JLPT HSK 6

sì
Left: food 饣/食 (Under the cover is good 良 food.), right: administration 司 (... where sb. is sitting in a corner ⌝ throwing a sheet 一 of paper in the wastebasket 口)
(when breeding animal) You need food and "management" for raising.

	饥
JLPT HSK 6

jī
Left: food 饣/食 (Below the cover is good 良 food.), right: (empty) table 几
No food on the empty table: I am hungry.

	饶
JLPT HSK 6

ráo
Left: food 饣/食, right: emperor Tang Yao 尧 (vari. of halberd 戈, table )
The food and a halberd are on the table: We are in abundance.

	蚀
JLPT HSK 6

shí
Left: food 饣/食 (Below the cover is good 良 food.), right: insect 虫
The eating/food by an insect is "eating (nibbling) into it", like: corrosion.

	馈
JLPT HSK 6

kuì
Left: eat 饣/食, right: precious, expensive 贵 (A blooming flower [simplf. from 堇] and money 贝 are precious)
Food, that is precious is offered as: a present (or offering).

	馅
JLPT HSK 6

xiàn
Left: food 饣/食, right: pitfall 臽 (falling person ⺈ over a pit trap 臼 [= mortar])
The food that is pressed into a "pitfall", is the stuffing.

	馋
JLPT HSK 6

chán
Left: food 饣/食, right: avoid, escape 免 (escaping rabbit 兔 with long ear⺈, big eyes 罒, legs 儿 but no tail 丶) and two strokes 丶丶
In respect to food is rabbit in the grasses 丶丶: gluttonous.

	饪
JLPT HSK 6

rèn
Left: food 饣/食 (Below the cover is good 良 food.), right: burden 壬 (or scholar 士 with a hatノ)
The food prepared for the scholar with a hat is: cooked food.

	饷
JLPT no HSK

xiǎng
Left: food 饣/食 (Below the cover is good 良 food.), right: in a direction, towards 向 (At the house 冂 the window 口 is in: this ノ direction.)
Towards food is directed the: soldier's pay.

	饵
JLPT no HSK

ěr
Left: eat 饣/食, right: ear 耳
Food (in the volume) of an ear as: a pastry or bait.

	饬
JLPT no HSK

chì
Left: food 饣/食 (Below the cover is good 良 food.), right: lying person , force 力
With food the lying person gets strength: as if on order.