Original meaning: temple
Variant of 享. Originally a pictograph of a temple or a shrine. The meaning later shifted to "food offering" and "enjoy".
Character Evolution
Historical Pronunciations
| Old Chinese | |
|---|---|
| Zhengzhang | qʰaŋʔ |
說文解字
《說文》：“亯，獻也。从高省。曰：象進孰物形。《孝經》曰：‘祭則鬼亯之。’享，篆文亯。”
Sources
- Character origin
- 漢語多功能字庫
- Readings & variants
- Unicode
- Historical pronunciations
- Zhengzhang Shangfang
- Historical images
- Academia Sinica
- Etymology
- Shuowen Jiezi (說文解字)