kuì

make present of food

Character Evolution

Seal form
Seal Shuowen ~100 AD
Clerical form
Clerical Qin 221-206 BC
Clerical form
Clerical Western Han 202 BC-9 AD

Historical Pronunciations

Middle ChineseOld ChineseGloss
Baxter-SagartgwijH[ɡ]ruj-spresent (food) (v.)
Zhengzhangɡruls

說文解字

吳人謂祭曰餽。从食从鬼,鬼亦聲。

Sources

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