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in the seal script, it consists of three parts, 虫 worm or insect, 食 food utensil, and 人. The character in seal script depicts a worm eats into a man’s food. Continue reading “蚀 insects eat into a man’s things”
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食 a food utensil
食, a compound ideograph resembling an ancient food utensil, serves as a semantic component to form characters such as 饥, 饿, 饭, 饮, 饲, 饼, 饺, 餐, 餍, 飨 and so on. Continue reading “食 a food utensil”