菜肴
cài​yáo

dishes

菜 cài vegetables

Phonosemantic compound. 艹 represents the meaning and 采 represents the sound.

Components

艹
艹 Meaning component
cao, cǎo grass

艹 is a component form of 艸.

采
采 Sound component
cǎi gather, pick

Character Evolution

Bronze form
Bronze Mid Western Zhou ~900 BC
Seal form
Seal Warring States (Chu) 475-221 BC
Seal form
Seal Shuowen ~100 AD
Clerical form
Clerical Western Han 202 BC-9 AD
Clerical form
Clerical Eastern Han 25-220 AD
Clerical form
Clerical Eastern Han 25-220 AD
Regular Modern

Historical Pronunciations

Middle ChineseOld ChineseGloss
Baxter-SagarttshojHs.r̥ˤəʔ-s vegetables

說文解字

艸之可食者。从艸采聲。

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)

肴 yáo cooked or prepared meat Simplified

Components

爻
爻 Sound component
yáo, xiào diagrams for divination
⺼
⺼ Meaning component
ròu meat, flesh

Character Evolution

Seal form
Seal Shuowen ~100 AD
Regular Modern

Component uses

Sound (0 of 3 verified)

淆崤餚

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)

餚 cooked or prepared meat Traditional

Components

飠
飠 Meaning component
eat

food

肴
肴 Sound component
yáo cooked or prepared meat

Historical Pronunciations

Old Chinese
Zhengzhangɢraːw

Sources

Readings & variants
Unicode
Historical pronunciations
Zhengzhang Shangfang