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饲

sì

raise animals

Phonosemantic compound. 饣 represents the meaning and 司 represents the sound. Simplified form of 飼.

Components
饣 meaning component

饣  Meaning component

shí

  

eat

饣 is a component form of 食.

司 sound component

司  Sound component

sī

  

take charge of

Evolution

饲 Traditional script Modern

Traditional script

Modern
饲 Simplified script Modern

Simplified script

Modern
Definitions

饲 (飼) 

sì

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

饲 (飤) 

sì

old variant of 飼|饲[sì]

Most common words with 饲
Freq.
Word
Meaning

饲料

feed

饲养

to raise

饲养员

zookeeper

饲

to raise

饲草

forage grass

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

8

Traditional

飼

Unicode

U+9972


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