Phonosemantic compound. 肙 represents the sound and 飠 represents the meaning.
肙 Sound Iconic component
yuàn, yuān
to be satiated
Depicts a mouth (口) eating a piece of meat (⺼) to be full.
Seal script
Shuowen (~100 AD)Regular script
ModernStrokes | 16 |
Unicode | U+4B3C |
Shuowen | “,也。从食,肙聲。” |