饣
shí

eat

饣 is a component form of 食, which depicts a mouth (亼) eating from a food vessel (皀).

Components

亼
亼 IconicSimplified component
jí (upside-down mouth), to assemble

Depicts an upside-down mouth.

皀
皀 IconicSimplified component
jí, bī, xiāng one grain

Depicts a food vessel.

Component uses

Meaning (11 of 38 verified)

饭馆饿饲饱饥饶饼蚀馈饷饵馒饺馅馍馁馀馐饨馕馑饽饪馄饯馏馊馔饧饫饩馓饴馇饸饹馂

Sound (0 of 3 verified)

蚀饬馋

Iconic (1)

饮

Sources

Character origin
漢語多功能字庫季旭昇《說文新證》p.435-436
Readings & variants
Unicode

飠 eat Traditional

飠 is a component form of 食, which depicts a mouth (亼) eating from a food vessel (皀).

Components

亼
亼 Iconic component
jí (upside-down mouth), to assemble

Depicts an upside-down mouth.

皀
皀 Iconic component
jí, bī, xiāng one grain

Depicts a food vessel.

Change in form
Due to historical stylistic changes, this component is less similar to 皀 than it was in ancient scripts.

Character Evolution

Oracle form
Oracle Bone ~1250-1000 BC
Oracle form
Oracle Bone ~1250-1000 BC
Oracle form
Oracle Bone ~1250-1000 BC
Bronze form
Bronze Spring and Autumn 771-476 BC
Bronze form
Bronze Mid Warring States ~300 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
Clerical form
Clerical Western Han 202 BC-9 AD
Clerical form
Clerical Eastern Han 25-220 AD
Regular Modern

Component uses

Meaning (13 of 42 verified)

餘飯餬飽饋飢饑飩餅飼餃餵蝕餉館饅饈餚飪餒餌餓饒餼饌餿饢飴䬼饃餕餛餞饞飫饊饉餑餎餡餄餾

Iconic (3)

飲鄉飤

Sound (1 of 3 verified)

飭蝕飤

Deleted (1)

乡

說文解字

《說文》：“食，一米也。从皀，亼聲。或說亼皀也。”

Sources

Character origin
漢語多功能字庫季旭昇《說文新證》p.435-436
Readings & variants
Unicode
Historical images
Academia Sinica
Etymology
Shuowen Jiezi (說文解字)