肙
yuān

to be satiated

Depicts a mouth (口) eating a piece of meat (⺼) to be full. Original form of 䬼.

Components

口
口 Iconic component
kǒu, kou mouth
⺼
⺼ Iconic component
ròu meat, flesh

⺼ is a component form of 肉.


Character Evolution

Seal form
Seal Warring States (Chu) 475-221 BC
Seal form
Seal Shuowen ~100 AD
Regular Modern

Component uses

Sound (1 of 10 verified)

捐绢娟鹃涓狷絹蜎䬼鵑

Iconic (1)

䬼

Historical Pronunciations

Middle ChineseOld ChineseGloss
Baxter-Sagart'wenqʷˤen small worm (Shuōwén)

說文解字

《說文》：“肙，小蟲也。从肉，口聲。一曰空也。”

Sources

Character origin
黃德寬《古文字譜系疏證》p.2562
Readings & variants
Unicode
Historical pronunciations
Baxter-Sagart
Historical images
Academia Sinica
Etymology
Shuowen Jiezi (說文解字)