飧

飧 U+98E7, 飧 CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-98E7 ← 飦 [U+98E6] CJK Unified Ideographs 飨 → [U+98E8]

Translingual

Han character

飧 (Kangxi radical 184, 食+3, 12 strokes, cangjie input 弓戈人戈女 (NIOIV), four-corner 2823₂, composition ⿰夕食)

Derived characters

• 蕵

References

• Kangxi Dictionary: page 1416, character 19
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 44038
• Dae Jaweon: page 1940, character 25
• Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 7, page 4442, character 13
• Unihan data for U+98E7

Chinese

trad.		飧
simp. #		飧
alternative forms		𩚏 飱 湌 喰

Glyph origin

Characters in the same phonetic series (飧) (Zhengzhang, 2003) 

	Old Chinese
飧	*suːn
蕵	*suːn

Ideogrammic compound (會意／会意) : 夕 (“night; evening; dusk”) + 食 (“food”).

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): sūn (sun¹)

  (Zhuyin): ㄙㄨㄣ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): syun¹

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: sūn
    • Zhuyin: ㄙㄨㄣ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: sun
    • Wade–Giles: sun¹
    • Yale: swūn
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: suen
    • Palladius: сунь (sunʹ)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /su̯ən⁵⁵/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)
    • Jyutping: syun¹
    • Yale: syūn
    • Cantonese Pinyin: syn¹
    • Guangdong Romanization: xun¹
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /syːn⁵⁵/

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• Middle Chinese: swon

Rime
Character	飧
Reading #	1/1
Initial (聲)	心 (16)
Final (韻)	魂 (55)
Tone (調)	Level (Ø)
Openness (開合)	Closed
Division (等)	I
Fanqie	思渾切
Baxter	swon
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang Shangfang	/suən/
Pan Wuyun	/suon/
Shao Rongfen	/suən/
Edwin Pulleyblank	/swən/
Li Rong	/suən/
Wang Li	/suən/
Bernard Karlgren	/suən/
Expected Mandarin Reflex	sūn
Expected Cantonese Reflex	syun1

• Old Chinese

  (Baxter–Sagart): /*[s]ˤu[r]/

  (Zhengzhang): /*suːn/

Baxter–Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character	飧
Reading #	1/1
Modern Beijing (Pinyin)	sūn
Middle Chinese	‹ swon ›
Old Chinese	/*[s]ˁu[r]/
English	evening meal
Notes for Old Chinese notations in the Baxter–Sagart system: * Parentheses "()" indicate uncertain presence; * Square brackets "[]" indicate uncertain identity, e.g. *[t] as coda may in fact be *-t or *-p; * Angle brackets "<>" indicate infix; * Hyphen "-" indicates morpheme boundary; * Period "." indicates syllable boundary.

Zhengzhang system (2003)
Character	飧
Reading #	1/1
No.	12184
Phonetic component	飧
Rime group	文
Rime subdivision	2
Corresponding MC rime	孫
Old Chinese	/*suːn/

Definitions

飧

1. evening meal; supper; dinner
2. cooked food
3. to immerse cooked grain in water

Compounds

• 以噎廢飧／以噎废飧
• 壺飧／壶飧
• 易子而飧
• 朝饔夕飧 (zhāoyōngxìsūn)
• 狼飧虎嚥／狼飧虎咽
• 盤飧／盘飧
• 風飧露宿／风飧露宿
• 饔飧 (yōngsūn)
• 饔飧不給／饔飧不给
• 饔飧不繼／饔飧不继
• 饔飧不飽／饔飧不饱

 

Japanese

Kanji

飧

(Hyōgai kanji)

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Readings

• On (unclassified): そん (son)
• Kun: ばんめし (banmeshi)

Korean

Hanja

飧 • (son) (hangeul 손, revised son, McCune–Reischauer son, Yale son)

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