餳
xíng

sugar

Character Evolution

Bronze form
Bronze Early Western Zhou ~1000 BC
Seal form
Seal Shuowen ~100 AD
Seal form
Seal Shuowen ~100 AD

Historical Pronunciations

Middle ChineseOld ChineseGloss
Baxter-SagartdangC.lˤaŋ (no pre-Qín exx)sweets
Zhengzhangljaːŋ

Sources

Readings & variants
Unicode
Historical pronunciations
Baxter-SagartZhengzhang Shangfang
Historical images
Academia Sinica

饧 xíng, táng sugar Simplified

Components

饣
饣 Meaning component
shí eat

food

昜
昜 Sound component
yáng bright

Sources

Readings & variants
Unicode