猒
yàn

satiate, eat one's fill

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Depicts a dog (犬) with meat (肉) in its mouth (甘).

Components

甘
甘 Iconic component

Depicts a mouth with something tasty inside.

⺼
⺼ Iconic component

⺼ is a component form of 肉.

犬
犬 Iconic component

Character Evolution

Bronze form
Bronze Early Western Zhou ~1000 BC
Seal form
Seal Warring States (Chu) 475-221 BC
Seal form
Seal Warring States (Chu) 475-221 BC
Seal form
Seal Shuowen ~100 AD
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 Eastern Han 25-220 AD
Regular Modern

Historical Pronunciations

Middle ChineseOld ChineseGloss
Baxter-Sagart'jiemʔem satiate, satisfy
'jiemHʔem-s satisfaction

說文解字

《說文》：“猒，飽也，从甘，从肰。猒，或从。”

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)