飤

to feed

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approved by Prismcool · Oct 23, 2025, 03:47 PM · Reviewed by Prismcool on Oct 23, 2025, 03:47 PM

亼

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Depicts a person (人) using their mouth to eat food (飠).

Components

飠
飠 SoundIconic component

Depicts a mouth (亼) eating from a food vessel (皀). 食 also represents the sound.

人
人 Iconic component

Character Evolution

Oracle form
Oracle Bone ~1250-1000 BC
Oracle form
Oracle Bone ~1250-1000 BC
Bronze form
Bronze Western Zhou 1045-771 BC
Bronze form
Bronze Mid Western Zhou ~900 BC
Bronze form
Bronze Early Spring and Autumn ~700 BC
Bronze form
Bronze Mid Warring States ~300 BC
Seal form
Seal Late Western Zhou ~800 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
Clerical form
Clerical Qin 221-206 BC
Clerical form
Clerical Western Han 202 BC-9 AD
Regular Modern

Historical Pronunciations

Middle ChineseOld ChineseGloss
Baxter-SagartziHs-m-lək-s feed (v.)

說文解字

《說文》：“飤，糧也。从人、食。”

Sources

Character origin
漢語多功能字庫張世超《金文形義通解》p.1302
Readings & variants
Unicode
Historical pronunciations
Baxter-Sagart
Historical images
Academia Sinica
Etymology
Shuowen Jiezi (說文解字)