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飧

sūn
noun

Meanings

  1. 1 supper; evening meal
  2. 2 cooked food; a simple meal

Examples

HSK 7-9
盘飧市远无兼味。
Pán sūn shì yuǎn wú jiān wèi.
Far from the market, the meal at home has no second dish.
HSK 7-9
谁知盘中飧，粒粒皆辛苦。
Shéi zhī pán zhōng sūn, lì lì jiē xīnkǔ.
Who knows that every grain of the meal in the bowl is hard-won toil.

Tips

history
A literary word for the evening meal, built from 夕 (dusk) over 食 (food). It appears in Du Fu's line 盘飧市远.

Components

radical
食 shí
food; to eat
The food radical supplies the "meal" half; together with 夕 the character pictures an evening meal.
semantic
夕 xī
evening; dusk
The dusk element on the left supplies the "evening" half of the idea: a meal eaten when the sun has gone down.

Stroke Order

飧 sūn