馈送 Origin — Dong Chinese Dictionary

kuì offer food superior Simplified

Expensive 贵 food 饣; 贵 also provides the pronunciation

Components

饣 Meaning component

shí eat

贵 Sound Meaning component

guì expensive

Sources

Readings & variants: Unicode

sòng see off

Phonosemantic compound. 辶 represents the meaning and 灷 represents the sound.

Components

辶 Meaning component

chuò walk

辶 is a component form of 辵.

灷 Sound component

zhuàn seal up gaps of a boat

Modern form looks like 关.

Change in sound

送 and 灷 don't sound similar in modern Mandarin due to historical phonetic changes. They were more similar in older Chinese.

Character Evolution

Bronze form — Bronze Late Warring States ~250 BC

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	Middle Chinese	Old Chinese	Gloss
Baxter-Sagart	suwngH	[s]ˤoŋ-s	escort (v.), send

說文解字

遣也。从辵，㑞省。

Sources

Character origin: 漢語多功能字庫
Readings & variants: Unicode
Historical pronunciations: Baxter-Sagart
Historical images: Academia Sinica
Etymology: Shuowen Jiezi (說文解字)

offer food superior Traditional

Expensive 貴 food 飠; 貴 also provides the pronunciation

Components

飠 Meaning component

eat

貴 Sound Meaning component

guì expensive

Character Evolution

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Historical Pronunciations

	Middle Chinese	Old Chinese	Gloss
Baxter-Sagart	gwijH	[ɡ]ruj-s	present of food (<food basket ?)
Zhengzhang		ɡruls
Unicode	ghyuì

說文解字

餉也。从食貴聲。

Sources

Readings & variants: Unicode
Historical pronunciations: Baxter-Sagart Zhengzhang Shangfang
Historical images: Academia Sinica
Etymology: Shuowen Jiezi (說文解字)

馈 kuì offer food superior Simplified

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送 sòng see off

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說文解字

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饋 offer food superior Traditional

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kuì offer food superior Simplified

sòng see off

offer food superior Traditional