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The [[semantic space]] of {{tp|moku}} includes consumption. It most often refers to eating or drinking, but can also include breathing and other {{w|routes of administration}} such as {{w|Injection (medicine)|injections}}.<ref name="alison2023a"/><ref name="alison2023b"/>

|mi <mark>moku</mark> e kili.

|I <mark>eat</mark> a fruit.

|mi <mark>moku </mark> e kili

The word {{tp|moku}} implies the presence of a type of fuel or similar resource by analogy. For example, learning may be expressed metaphorically as "to consume knowledge". Often, {{tp|moku}} also implies the depletion of said fuel, similarly to how English frames {{w|corrosion}} and {{w|erosion}} as "eating away at" or "eating through" something.

|seli li <mark>moku</mark> e kasi.

|Fire "<mark>eats up</mark>" wood.

|seli li <mark>moku </mark> e kasi

Its semantic space also includes food itself and the state of being edible. As in the "fuel" examples, this sense can be extended to any substance fit for consumption in a given [[context]], even if it would not literally be considered eating.

|<mark>moku</mark> ni li tawa tenpo kulupu.

|This <mark>food</mark> is for the gathering.

|<mark>moku </mark>ni li tawa tenpo kulupu

[[File:Visual aid (tok) - soweli li moku e waso.png|250px|thumb|Visual aid for the word {{tp|moku}} in the phrase {{tp|soweli li moku e waso}}]]

The {{tp|[[sitelen pona]]}} glyph for {{tp|moku}} ({{UCSUR char|{{codepoint|moku}}}}) is derived from a mouth [[radical]] above a hand radical, depicting a hand bringing food to the mouth. These may be drawn either separated (as in {{pu|en}}) or connected.