Chinese Character Wiki

饕

tāo

gluttonous

Components
號 sound component

號  Sound component

hào, háo

  

call, mark

食 meaning component

食  Meaning component

shí, sì

  

eat

eat

Evolution

饕 Bronze script Early Western Zhou (~1000 BC)

Bronze script

Early Western Zhou (~1000 BC)
饕 Seal script Shuowen (~100 AD)

Seal script

Shuowen (~100 AD)
饕 Clerical script Eastern Han dynasty (25-220 AD)

Clerical script

Eastern Han dynasty (25-220 AD)
饕 Regular script Modern

Regular script

Modern
Definitions

饕  

tāo

gluttonous, greedy, covetous; gluttonous; see 饕餮[tāo​tiè], zoomorphic mask motif

Most common words with 饕
Freq.
Word
Meaning

饕

gluttonous

饕餮

gluttonous

老饕

glutton

饕餮之徒

glutton

Historical pronunciation

Old Chinese

Middle Chinese

Pinyin

Gloss

*[tʰ]ˤaw

thaw

tāo

饕餮 thaw.thet glutton


Statistics

Not found in HSK word list

4324th most common character in books

Miscellaneous

Strokes

22

Unicode

U+9955

Shuowen

“饕，貪也。从食，號聲。叨，饕或从口，刀聲。號，籀文饕从號省。”


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