jiàn
farewell party
Phonosemantic compound. 饣 represents the meaning and 戋 represents the sound. Simplified form of 餞.
Evolution

Seal script
Shuowen (~100 AD)Traditional script
ModernSimplified script
ModernMost common words with 饯
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 | 8 |
Traditional | |
Unicode | U+996F |
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