Chinese Character Wiki

飼

sì

raise animals

Phonosemantic compound. 飠 represents the meaning and 司 represents the sound.

Components
飠 meaning component

飠  Meaning component

shí

  

eat

飠 is a component form of 食.

司 sound component

司  Sound component

sī

  

take charge of

Definitions

饲 (飼) 

sì

raise animals; feed; nourish; to raise; to rear; to feed

Most common words with 飼
Freq.
Word
Meaning

饲料

feed

饲养

to raise

饲养员

zookeeper

饲

to raise

饲草

forage grass

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

13

Simplified

饲

Unicode

U+98FC


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