Chinese Character Wiki
飤

sì

to feed

Depicts a person (人) using their mouth to eat food (飠).

Components
飠 sound,iconic component

飠  Sound Iconic component

shí

  

eat

Depicts a mouth (亼) eating from a food vessel (皀). 食 also represents the sound.

人 iconic component

人  Iconic component

rén

  

person

Evolution

飤 Oracle script (~1250-1000 BC)

Oracle script

(~1250-1000 BC)
飤 Bronze script Mid Western Zhou (~900 BC)

Bronze script

Mid Western Zhou (~900 BC)
飤 Seal script Shuowen (~100 AD)

Seal script

Shuowen (~100 AD)
飤 Clerical script Western Han dynasty (202 BC-9 AD)

Clerical script

Western Han dynasty (202 BC-9 AD)
飤 Regular script Modern

Regular script

Modern
Definitions

𬲦 (飤) 

sì

to feed; provisions

饲 (飤) 

sì

old variant of 飼|饲[sì]

Most common words with 飤
Freq.
Word
Meaning

饲料

feed

饲养

to raise

饲养员

zookeeper

饲

to raise

饲草

forage grass

Component uses

Sound component in 1 character (0 verified)

飾

Historical pronunciation

Old Chinese

Middle Chinese

Pinyin

Gloss

*s-m-lək-s

ziH

sì

feed (v.)


Statistics

Not found in HSK word list

Appears in 1.4096% of movies

3189th most common character in movies

1971st most common character in books

Miscellaneous

Strokes

10

Simplified

𬲦

Unicode

U+98E4

Shuowen

“飤，糧也。从人、食。”


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