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喰

cān
verb

Meanings

  1. 1 (old variant of 餐) to eat; a meal

Examples

喰是餐字的异体字，意思是吃饭。
Cān shì cān zì de yìtǐzì, yìsi shì chīfàn.
喰 is an old variant of the character 餐, meaning 'to eat'.
古书里有时用它代替餐字。
Gǔ shū lǐ yǒushí yòng tā dàitì cān zì.
In old texts it was sometimes used in place of 餐.

Tips

usage
喰 is an old variant character for 餐 ('to eat / a meal'). It is rare in modern Chinese; in Japanese the same glyph is read 'kuu' for casual eating. Standard Chinese just uses 餐 or 吃.

Components

radical
口 kǒu
mouth
The mouth radical 口 on the left carries the meaning, eating is done with the mouth, making the 'to eat' sense transparent.
semantic
食 shí
food; to eat
食 ('food') on the right reinforces the meaning; mouth plus food together spell out 'to eat a meal'.

No stroke data for 喰; the glyph shown is your device font, so component strokes can't be highlighted.

Stroke Order

喰 cān