jiàn
farewell party
Phonosemantic compound. 飠 represents the meaning and 戔 represents the sound.
Evolution

Seal script
Shuowen (~100 AD)Regular script
ModernMost common words with 餞
Freq. | Word | Meaning |
---|---|---|
food preserved in sugar or honey | ||
to give a farewell dinner | ||
preserves | ||
to give a farewell dinner |
Statistics
Not found in HSK word list
4658th most common character in books
Miscellaneous
Strokes | 16 |
Simplified | |
Unicode | U+991E |
Shuowen | “餞,送去也。从食,戔聲。《詩》曰:‘顯父餞之。’” |
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