Chinese Character Wiki

飧

sūn

evening meal

An evening 夕 meal 食

Components
夕 meaning component

夕  Meaning component

xī

  

evening

食 meaning component

食  Meaning component

shí, sì

  

eat

Evolution

飧 Seal script Shuowen (~100 AD)

Seal script

Shuowen (~100 AD)
飧 Regular script Modern

Regular script

Modern
Definitions

飧  

sūn

evening meal, supper; cooked food; (literary) supper

飧 (飱) 

sūn

variant of 飧[sūn]

Historical pronunciation

Old Chinese

Middle Chinese

Pinyin

Gloss

*[s]ˤu[r]

swon

sūn

evening meal


Statistics

Not found in HSK word list

4494th most common character in books

Miscellaneous

Strokes

12

Unicode

U+98E7

Shuowen

“，餔也。从夕、食。”


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