飤

Translingual

Etymology

Ideogrammic compound (會意): 食 (“food, rice”) + 人 (“person”) – a person eating rice, feeding.

Also Phono-semantic compound (形聲), with 食 acting as phonetic.

Han character

飤 (radical 184 食+2, 11 strokes, cangjie input 人戈人 (OIO))

  1. to feed
  2. provisions

Derived characters

References

  • KangXi: page 1416, character 10
  • Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 44025
  • Dae Jaweon: page 1940, character 12
  • Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 7, page 4441, character 4
  • Unihan data for U+98E4

Mandarin

Hanzi

飤 (pinyin sì (si4), Wade-Giles ssu4)

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Last modified on 10 May 2011, at 02:43