yōng​xì

present livestock

yōng breakfast

Components

Sound component
yōng harmony
Meaning component
shí, shi eat

food

Character Evolution

Bronze form
Bronze Early Spring and Autumn ~700 BC
Bronze form
Bronze Early Spring and Autumn ~700 BC
Seal form
Seal Shuowen ~100 AD
Regular Modern

Historical Pronunciations

Old Chinese
Zhengzhangqoŋ

Sources

Readings & variants
Unicode
Historical pronunciations
Zhengzhang Shangfang
Historical images
Academia Sinica

gift of grain Simplified

Phonosemantic compound. represents the meaning and represents the sound.

Components

Meaning component
shí eat

is a component form of .

Sound component
qì, qi air

Sources

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

gift of grain Traditional

Phonosemantic compound. represents the meaning and represents the sound.

Components

Meaning component
eat

is a component form of .

Sound component
qì, qi air

Character Evolution

Seal form
Seal Western Han 202 BC-9 AD
Seal form
Seal Shuowen ~100 AD
Seal form
Seal Shuowen ~100 AD
Seal form
Seal Shuowen ~100 AD
Clerical form
Clerical Qin 221-206 BC
Clerical form
Clerical Western Han 202 BC-9 AD
Clerical form
Clerical Eastern Han 25-220 AD
Clerical form
Clerical Eastern Han 25-220 AD
Clerical form
Clerical Eastern Han 25-220 AD
Clerical form
Clerical Three Kingdoms (Cao Wei) 222-280 AD
Regular Modern

Historical Pronunciations

Middle ChineseOld ChineseGloss
Baxter-Sagartxj+jHqʰ(r)ə[t]-s gift of animals or grain

說文解字

《說文》:“氣,饋客芻米也。从米,气聲。《春秋傳》曰:‘齊人來氣諸矦。’,氣或从既;餼,氣或从食。”

Sources

Character origin
漢語多功能字庫
Readings & variants
Unicode
Historical pronunciations
Baxter-Sagart
Historical images
Academia Sinica