← Back to history 
Oracle Bone ~1250-1000 BC 
Bronze Late Shang ~1100 BC 
Seal Shuowen ~100 AD 
Clerical Western Han 202 BC-9 AD 
Clerical Eastern Han 25-220 AD 
Clerical Eastern Han 25-220 AD Regular Modern
verify
Changed fields: isVerified, customSources
Phonosemantic compound. 食 represents the meaning and 鄉 represents the sound. Originally written as 鄉.
Components
Character Evolution
Historical Pronunciations
| Middle Chinese | Old Chinese | Gloss | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Baxter-Sagart | xjangX | qʰaŋʔ | feast |
說文解字
《說文》：“饗，鄉人飲酒也。从食，从鄉，鄉亦聲。”
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)