饣

飠

shízìpáng

radical variant

Meanings

1 food on left radical, simplified (variant of 食)
2 left form of the food radical, Kangxi #184

Tips

usage

饣 on the left signals everything to do with eating - meals, hunger, fullness, restaurants, snacks. It is the simplified left-position form of 食; traditional script still writes the eight-stroke 飠. The Simplified/Traditional pair is exact: 饭/飯, 饺/餃, 馆/館 swap one for the other. Never written alone.

history

饣 came out of the 1956 simplification reform: the traditional left-side form 飠 - itself a positional variant of 食, originally a pictograph of a covered food vessel - was cut from eight strokes to three for faster handwriting. Traditional contexts continue to use 飠/食 in this slot.

usage

Food/eating cue: 饭 (cooked rice/meal), 饿 (hungry), 饱 (full), 饺 (dumpling), 饼 (flatbread), 馆 (restaurant/hall), 饮 (drink).

Radical

Food Kangxi #184

One of the most productive food-and-eating radicals. Built on a covered grain vessel, 食 indexes everything to do with meals, hunger, fullness, and the kitchen, but it almost always appears in its left-position variants 饣 (simplified) or 飠 (traditional): 饭, 饺, 饿, 饱, 馆, 饮. Free-standing 食 is more literary.

Forms

食 shí

Default 6 characters

饣 shízìpáng

Left 38 characters

飠 shí

Left 0 characters

Used in

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Showing 6 of 38 · left form 饣 of 食

饿 è

hungry

饭 fàn

cooked rice · meal

饼 bǐng

round flat cake · cookie

饱 bǎo

full (from eating) · satisfied

饶 ráo

to spare · to forgive

馆 guǎn

building; hall; establishment · shop; restaurant

Stroke Order