yuān

to be satiated

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approved by Prismcool · Feb 17, 2024, 08:10 PM · Reviewed by Prismcool on Feb 17, 2024, 08:10 PM

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

Components

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⺼ is a component form of .


Character Evolution

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

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
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Academia Sinica