Chinese Character Wiki
飠

shí

eat

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

Components
口 iconic component

口  Iconic component

kǒu

  

mouth

Depicts an upside-down mouth.

皀 iconic component

皀  Iconic component

jí, bī

  

one grain

Depicts a food vessel.

Evolution

飠 Oracle script (~1250-1000 BC)

Oracle script

(~1250-1000 BC)
飠 Bronze script Spring and Autumn (771-476 BC)

Bronze script

Spring and Autumn (771-476 BC)
飠 Seal script Shuowen (~100 AD)

Seal script

Shuowen (~100 AD)
飠 Clerical script Eastern Han dynasty (25-220 AD)

Clerical script

Eastern Han dynasty (25-220 AD)
飠 Regular script Modern

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 3 characters (0 verified)

飾 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。”


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