xiǎng

rations and pay for soldiers

Phonosemantic compound. represents the meaning and represents the sound. Simplified form of .

Components
饣 meaning component

  Meaning component

shí

  

eat

is a component form of .

向 sound component

  Sound component

xiàngxiǎng

  

toward

Evolution

饷 Seal script Shuowen (~100 AD)

Seal script

Shuowen (~100 AD)
饷 Clerical script Eastern Han dynasty (25-220 AD)

Clerical script

Eastern Han dynasty (25-220 AD)
饷 Clerical script Jin dynasty (266-420 AD)

Clerical script

Jin dynasty (266-420 AD)
饷 Traditional script Modern

Traditional script

Modern
饷 Simplified script Modern

Simplified script

Modern
Definitions

() 

xiǎng

rations and pay for soldiers; soldier's pay

() 

xiǎng

variant of |[xiǎng]

Most common words with 饷
Freq.
Word
Meaning

军饷

(soldier's) pay

soldier's pay

粮饷

army provisions

兵饷

pay and provisions for soldiers

Statistics

Not found in HSK word list

3103rd most common character in books

Miscellaneous

Strokes

9

Traditional

Unicode

U+9977


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