饣
shí

eat

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approved by Prismcool · Oct 23, 2025, 03:49 PM · Reviewed by Prismcool on Oct 23, 2025, 03:49 PM

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Changed fields: hint, components, customSources

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

Components

亼
亼 IconicSimplified component

Depicts an upside-down mouth.

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

Depicts a food vessel.

Sources

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