xiàn

pastry filling

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

Components
饣 meaning component

  Meaning component

shí

  

eat

is a component form of .

臽 sound component

  Sound component

xiàn

  

a pit

Evolution

馅 Traditional script Modern

Traditional script

Modern
馅 Simplified script Modern

Simplified script

Modern
Definitions

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xiàn

pastry filling, stuffing; stuffing; forcemeat; filling

Most common words with 馅
Freq.
Word
Meaning

馅饼

pie

stuffing

肉馅

ground meat

露馅

to leak

馅儿

stuffing

Statistics

Not found in HSK word list

Appears in 6.3431% of movies

2076th most common character in movies

3765th most common character in books

Miscellaneous

Strokes

11

Traditional

Unicode

U+9985


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