porridge

Phonosemantic compound. represents the meaning and represents the sound.

Components
飠 meaning component

  Meaning component

shí

  

eat

is a component form of .

胡 sound component

  Sound component

  

beard

Evolution

餬 Seal script Shuowen (~100 AD)

Seal script

Shuowen (~100 AD)
餬 Regular script Modern

Regular script

Modern
Definitions

𫗫 () 

porridge, gruel, congee; paste

() 

congee; making a living

Most common words with 餬
Freq.
Word
Meaning

模糊

vague

糊涂

muddled

muddled

一塌糊涂

complete shambles

迷糊

dazed

Statistics

Not found in HSK word list

Appears in 22.8416% of movies

1493rd most common character in movies

1393rd most common character in books

Miscellaneous

Strokes

17

Simplified

Unicode

U+992C

Shuowen

“餬,寄食也。从食,胡聲。”


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