kanji Hi! Found this on my house, which is in a private street, is it Kanji? What does it mean?

[KanjiQuestionforU]

So my father found this (pretty big) symbol on the outer walls around my house, someone painted it and its pretty hard to find answers via Google, anyone can help us? We are Italians and live in Italy so its a big mistery for us! Thanks

 

 

[linguaholic]

wow, that's interesting. I love threads like this one. But unfortunately, I can't help here. Good luck with it! Hopefully, someone else here can contribute!

[citrontea]

It's really hard to tell and a little odd looking- it looks incomplete to me. Perhaps they're not familiar with Kanji and tried to draw one, but got confused. It does however look similar to 食　(the kanji for to eat)