What 飧 means
It means an evening meal or plain cooked food.
A Western Han manuscript written on bamboo strips uses 壺飧 in a story of a starving man fed from a pot: rice softened with water. The traditional analysis combines 夕 (“evening”) and 食 (“food”), which fits the evening-meal sense.
Classical and literary; in prose, 飧 reads as deliberately bookish diction.
Who writes 飧
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Don't confuse it with
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Related characters
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CJK Unified Ideograph-9954
朝饔夕飧 pairs the morning meal 饔 with the evening meal 飧.
CJK Unified Ideograph-98F1
飱 is a historical variant of 飧; transmitted texts sometimes mix the forms.
CJK Unified Ideograph-6E4C
湌 is another historical variant, written with the water element and linked to 飧’s water-softened-rice sense.
Questions people ask
1Why does 飧 show as a box on some devices?
Because that device's fonts have no glyph for it. The character is still correct and still copies correctly — the box is a missing glyph, not a broken character.
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How to type or find 飧
- Search it as
- classical Chinese supper · literary Chinese meal · 壺飧 · water-softened rice · 湌 · 飱
- Shows up in
- Anything that takes text · its shape is whatever your font draws
Windows (Word)
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HTML
飧CSS
\98E7Codes and encoding1 code points
HTML decimal
飧
HTML hex
飧
CSS content
content: "\98E7";
Each escape is closed by the next backslash; a trailing space is needed before a literal hex digit.
URL encoded
%E9%A3%A7
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On screen
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Code points
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JS .length
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UTF-8 bytes
A visible symbol can contain several code points. JS .length counts UTF-16 units; UTF-8 counts bytes.