飠 - Dong Chinese dictionary

shí

eat

飠 is a component form of 食, which depicts a mouth (口) eating from a food vessel (皀).

Components

口 Iconic component

kǒu

mouth

Depicts an upside-down mouth.

Due to historical stylistic changes, this component is less similar to 口 than it was in ancient scripts.

皀 Iconic component

jí, bī

one grain

Depicts a food vessel.

Due to historical stylistic changes, this component is less similar to 皀 than it was in ancient scripts.

Evolution

Oracle script

(~1250-1000 BC)

Bronze script

Spring and Autumn (771-476 BC)

Seal script

Shuowen (~100 AD)

Clerical script

Eastern Han dynasty (25-220 AD)

Regular script

Modern

Definitions

饣 (飠)

shí

eat, food; radical number 184; "to eat" or "food" radical in Chinese characters (Kangxi radical 184)

Component uses

Meaning component in 42 characters (12 verified)

餘飯館餓餵飽餅餃餡饈餼䬼餬飼飢饑饒蝕饋餉餌餚饅饞饃餒飩饢饉餑飪餛餞餾餿饌飫饊飴餄餎餕

Sound component in 2 characters (0 verified)

蝕飭

Iconic component in 2 characters (2 verified)

鄉飲

Deleted component in 1 character (1 verified)

乡

Statistics

Not found in HSK word list

Miscellaneous

Strokes	8
Simplified	饣
Unicode	U+98E0
Shuowen	“食，一米也。从皀，亼聲。或說亼皀也。”

Sources

MTSU Chinese text computing

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