肴
yáo

cooked or prepared meat

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approved by b.n.williams · Dec 3, 2024, 04:01 AM · Reviewed by Prismcool on Dec 3, 2024, 03:42 PM

modern form looks like 㐅有, but comes from 爻肉. The top part of 有 is the second 㐅. Updated components and strokes to match that. Also listed 爻 (current pinyin matches, and OC rhymes) as a sound component, and 肉 as the meaning component

Changed fields: components, strokeDataSimp, fragmentsSimp, historicalImages

Components

爻
爻 Sound component
⺼
⺼ Meaning component

Character Evolution

Seal form
Seal Shuowen ~100 AD
Regular Modern

Historical Pronunciations

Middle ChineseOld ChineseGloss
Baxter-Sagarthaew[g]ˤraw food

說文解字

《說文》：“肴，啖也。从肉，爻聲。”

Sources

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