饫甘餍肥
yù​gān​yàn​féi

luxurious living

饫 yù surfeited Simplified

Components

饣
饣 Meaning component
shí eat

eat

夭
夭 Sound component
yāo, wò, wāi die young

Sources

Readings & variants
Unicode

甘 gān sweetness

Pictograph of something sweet inside the mouth (口).

Components

口
口 Iconic component
kǒu, kou mouth
◎
◎ Iconic component
characterless component

Depicts something sweet inside the mouth.


Character Evolution

Oracle form
Oracle Bone ~1250-1000 BC
Bronze form
Bronze Early Warring States ~400 BC
Seal form
Seal Warring States (Chu) 475-221 BC
Seal form
Seal Warring States (Chu) 475-221 BC
Seal form
Seal Western Han 202 BC-9 AD
Seal form
Seal Shuowen ~100 AD
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
Clerical form
Clerical Eastern Han 25-220 AD
Clerical form
Clerical Eastern Han 25-220 AD
Regular Modern

Component uses

Sound (1 of 14 verified)

敢钳酣邯柑苷绀蚶泔疳坩紺拑鉗

Meaning (3 of 8 verified)

香智甜柑苷甙蚶泔

Iconic (5)

某甚鲁猒魯

Unknown (0 of 1 verified)

嵌

Historical Pronunciations

Middle ChineseOld ChineseGloss
Baxter-Sagartkam[k]ˤ[a]m sweet

說文解字

《說文》：“甘，美也。从口含一。一，道也。”

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)

餍 yàn be satiated Simplified

Components

厌
厌 Sound component
yàn dislike
食
食 Meaning component
shí, shi eat

eat

Sources

Readings & variants
Unicode

肥 féi fat

Depicts a person (卩) with extra flesh (肉) on their body.

Components

⺼
⺼ Iconic component
ròu meat, flesh

⺼ is a component form of 肉.

卩
卩 Iconic component
jié person kneeling

Modern form looks like 巴.

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

Character Evolution

Seal form
Seal Warring States (Chu) 475-221 BC
Seal form
Seal Warring States (Chu) 475-221 BC
Seal form
Seal Warring States (Chu) 475-221 BC
Seal form
Seal Warring States (Chu) 475-221 BC
Seal form
Seal Shuowen ~100 AD
Clerical form
Clerical Qin 221-206 BC
Regular Modern

Component uses

Sound (0 of 1 verified)

淝

Historical Pronunciations

Middle ChineseOld ChineseGloss
Baxter-Sagartbj+j[b][ə]r fat (adj.)

說文解字

《說文》：“肥，多肉也。从肉，从卪。”

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)

飫 surfeited Traditional

Components

飠
飠 Meaning component
eat

eat

夭
夭 Sound component
yāo, wò, wāi die young

Character Evolution

Seal form
Seal Shuowen ~100 AD
Seal form
Seal ~200 AD
Regular Modern

Historical Pronunciations

Middle ChineseOld Chinese
Zhengzhangqos
Unicodeqiù

Sources

Readings & variants
Unicode
Historical pronunciations
Zhengzhang Shangfang
Historical images
Academia Sinica

饜 be satiated Traditional

Components

厭
厭 Sound component
yàn dislike
食
食 Meaning component
shí, shi eat

eat

Historical Pronunciations

Middle ChineseOld ChineseGloss
Baxter-SagartʔjemHʔ<r>em-ssatiated
Zhengzhangqem
qems

Sources

Readings & variants
Unicode
Historical pronunciations
Baxter-SagartZhengzhang Shangfang