音読み: ショク
訓読み: かざる
画数: 13
部首: しょくへん（飠）
Meaning
Decorate / adorn / ornament.
- 飾る — to decorate; to adorn
- 装飾 — decoration; ornamentation
- 服飾 — clothing; fashion design
- 修飾 — embellishment; modification
- 虚飾 — ostentation; showy decoration
- 粉飾 — embellishment; window-dressing; falsification (esp. in accounting, e.g. 粉飾決算)
The radical しょくへん（飠） originally meant “food.” Here, it suggests things added for richness or presentation. The right side includes the phonetic ショク sound, reinforcing the reading. Together, 飾 expresses the idea of “to decorate, embellish, or dress up.”
Picture sprinkling 粉 (powder) over food or objects to make them look more appealing. That image helps you remember that 飾 means to decorate, embellish, or add ornament. And just like powder can either beautify or cover up, 飾 carries both the positive sense of “adorn” and the cautionary sense in words like 粉飾, where it means “to disguise or falsify.”
装飾 — decoration; adornment; ornamentation.