餉 - Dong Chinese dictionary

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xiǎng

rations and pay for soldiers

Phonosemantic compound. 飠 represents the meaning and 向 represents the sound.

Components

飠 Meaning component

shí

eat

飠 is a component form of 食.

向 Sound component

xiàng, xiǎng

toward

Evolution

Seal script

Shuowen (~100 AD)

Clerical script

Eastern Han dynasty (25-220 AD)

Clerical script

Jin dynasty (266-420 AD)

Regular script

Modern

Definitions

xiǎng

rations and pay for soldiers; soldier's pay

Most common words with 餉

Freq.	Word	Meaning
	军饷	(soldier's) pay
	饷	soldier's pay
	粮饷	army provisions
	兵饷	pay and provisions for soldiers

Historical pronunciation

Old Chinese	Middle Chinese	Pinyin	Gloss
*n̥aŋ(ʔ)-s	syangH	shàng	give food; food

Statistics

Not found in HSK word list

3103rd most common character in books

Miscellaneous

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