素馅
sù​xiàn

vegetarian filling

素 sù raw silk, white, plain

Depicts raw silk (糸) hanging from a rack.

Components

◎
◎ Iconic component
characterless component

Depicts a rack.

糸
糸 Iconic component
mì, sī silk

Depicts raw silk.


Character Evolution

Bronze form
Bronze Late Western Zhou ~800 BC
Bronze form
Bronze Late Western Zhou ~800 BC
Seal form
Seal Warring States (Chu) 475-221 BC
Seal form
Seal Shuowen ~100 AD
Clerical form
Clerical Western Han 202 BC-9 AD
Clerical form
Clerical Western Han 202 BC-9 AD
Clerical form
Clerical Western Han 202 BC-9 AD
Clerical form
Clerical Eastern Han 25-220 AD
Clerical form
Clerical Three Kingdoms (Cao Wei) 222-280 AD
Regular Modern

Component uses

Sound (0 of 2 verified)

愫嗉

Meaning (0 of 1 verified)

愫

Historical Pronunciations

Middle ChineseOld ChineseGloss
Baxter-SagartsuH[s]ˤak-s white silk

說文解字

《說文》：“素，白緻繒也。从糸、，取其澤也。”

Sources

Character origin
季旭昇《說文新證》p.891-892
Readings & variants
Unicode
Historical pronunciations
Baxter-Sagart
Historical images
Academia Sinica
Etymology
Shuowen Jiezi (說文解字)

馅 xiàn pastry filling Simplified

Simplified form of 餡. Phonosemantic compound. 饣 represents the meaning and 臽 represents the sound.

Components

饣
饣 Meaning component
shí eat

饣 is a component form of 食.

臽
臽 Sound component
xiàn a pit

Sources

Character origin
漢語多功能字庫
Readings & variants
Unicode

餡 xiàn pastry filling Traditional

Phonosemantic compound. 飠 represents the meaning and 臽 represents the sound.

Components

飠
飠 Meaning component
eat

飠 is a component form of 食.

臽
臽 Sound component
xiàn a pit

Historical Pronunciations

Old Chinese
Zhengzhangɡroːms

Sources

Character origin
漢語多功能字庫
Readings & variants
Unicode
Historical pronunciations
Zhengzhang Shangfang