xiǎng
rations and pay for soldiers
Phonosemantic compound. 饣 represents the meaning and 向 represents the sound. Simplified form of 餉.
Components
Evolution

Seal script
Shuowen (~100 AD)
Clerical script
Eastern Han dynasty (25-220 AD)
Clerical script
Jin dynasty (266-420 AD)Traditional script
ModernSimplified script
ModernMost common words with 饷
Freq. | Word | Meaning |
---|---|---|
(soldier's) pay | ||
soldier's pay | ||
army provisions | ||
pay and provisions for soldiers |
Statistics
Not found in HSK word list
3103rd most common character in books
Miscellaneous
Strokes | 9 |
Traditional | |
Unicode | U+9977 |
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