kuì

offer food superior

Expensive  food  also provides the pronunciation

Components
饣 meaning component

  Meaning component

shí

  

eat

贵 sound,meaning component

  Sound Meaning component

guì

  

expensive

Evolution

馈 Bronze script Late Spring and Autumn (~500 BC)

Bronze script

Late Spring and Autumn (~500 BC)
馈 Seal script Shuowen (~100 AD)

Seal script

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

Clerical script

Eastern Han dynasty (25-220 AD)
馈 Traditional script Modern

Traditional script

Modern
馈 Simplified script Modern

Simplified script

Modern
Definitions

() 

kuì

offer food superior; send gift; food; to make a present

() 

kuì

to make an offering to the gods; variant of |[kuì]

Most common words with 馈
Freq.
Word
Meaning

反馈

feedback

food

回馈

to repay a favor

馈赠

to present (a gift) to (sb)

负反馈

negative feedback

Statistics

Not found in HSK word list

Appears in 2.5949% of movies

2733rd most common character in movies

2947th most common character in books

Miscellaneous

Strokes

12

Traditional

Unicode

U+9988


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