CJK Unified Ideograph-996B

饫 means eating one's fill or a private feast.

The received Shijing line 「飲酒之飫」 shows it among brothers gathered for food and drink. Early lexicography records the older graph 𩜈 as banquet eating, and later ritual vocabulary uses 飫 for formal, standing hospitality: gathering, feeding, and rewarding people with added dishes.

The modern simplified 饫 belongs to a wider written family: traditional 飫 and older or variant forms 秗, 𩚿, 𩜏, 𩜢, and 饇 are documented relatives. If a historical edition shows another shape, it is an orthographic form in the same food-and-feasting word family.

How does 饫 change inside a phrase?

The phrase around it decides excess, luxury, or feast.

饫闻 turns the food metaphor into “heard too much” or “tired of hearing”; 饫甘餍肥 describes a luxurious life fed by rich food. Traditional 飫 survives in Japanese reference works as an out-of-standard kanji with satiation and banquet senses, while Korean Hanja keeps the graph under a different reading.

Should you send 饫 alone?

Usually no — send a phrase or explain the reference.

A bare 饫 leaves too many senses open: full, weary of excess, banquet, or bestowed food. If you mean “I’m full,” use 饱; reserve 饫 for a quotation, literary joke, historical discussion, or a fixed phrase such as 饫闻. The character is real, but the context does the decoding.