kuì

make present of food

Evolution

餽 Seal script Shuowen (~100 AD)

Seal script

Shuowen (~100 AD)
餽 Clerical script Qin dynasty (221-206 BC)

Clerical script

Qin dynasty (221-206 BC)
餽 Clerical script Western Han dynasty (202 BC-9 AD)

Clerical script

Western Han dynasty (202 BC-9 AD)
Definitions

 

kuì

make present of food; gift

() 

kuì

to make an offering to the gods; variant of |[kuì]

Most common words with 餽
Freq.
Word
Meaning

反馈

feedback

food

回馈

to repay a favor

馈赠

to present (a gift) to (sb)

负反馈

negative feedback

Historical pronunciation

Old Chinese

Middle Chinese

Pinyin

Gloss

*[g]ruj-s

gwijH

kuì

present (food) (v.)


Statistics

Not found in HSK word list

Appears in 2.5949% of movies

2733rd most common character in movies

2947th most common character in books

Miscellaneous

Strokes

17

Unicode

U+993D

Shuowen

“餽,吳人謂祭曰餽。从食,从鬼,鬼亦聲。”


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