xiǎng
host banquet
Phonosemantic compound. 食 represents the meaning and 鄉 represents the sound. Originally written as 鄉.
Evolution

Oracle script
(~1250-1000 BC)
Bronze script
Late Shang dynasty (~1100 BC)
Seal script
Shuowen (~100 AD)
Clerical script
Eastern Han dynasty (25-220 AD)Regular script
ModernHistorical pronunciation
Old Chinese | Middle Chinese | Pinyin | Gloss |
*qʰaŋʔ | xjangX | xiǎng | feast |
Statistics
Not found in HSK word list
4724th most common character in books
Miscellaneous
Strokes | 20 |
Simplified | |
Unicode | U+9957 |
Shuowen | “饗,鄉人飲酒也。从食,从鄉,鄉亦聲。” |
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