to feed

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)
Definitions

𬲦 () 

to feed; provisions

() 

old variant of |[sì]

Most common words with 飤
Freq.
Word
Meaning

饲料

feed

饲养

to raise

饲养员

zookeeper

to raise

饲草

forage grass

Historical pronunciation

Old Chinese

Middle Chinese

Pinyin

Gloss

*s-m-lək-s

ziH

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

Unicode

U+98E4

Shuowen

“飤,糧也。从人、食。”


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