宜 is a compound ideograph. The oracle bone script of 宜 depicts two pieces of meat on a sacrificial vessel. The line in the middle of the two pieces of meat could mean “divide or share equally”. In the bronze inscription, one line was changed into two. In the seal script, the meat was written as a 月 and the sacrificial vessel was written as 宀.
The sacrifice is a delicacy, so the meaning of 宜 was extended to:
Differentiating between "冖,'' ''宀,'' and "穴" helps you understand better and learn more easily the characters with these three radicals. Differences between 冖, 宀 and 穴 1. "冖'' relates to "cover''. Characters composed of 冖 have to do with a cover, for examples, 冠，冢，冤，冥，冪，etc. Check out the component 冖 for more characters formed by it. 2.…
宀, originally a roof/house, serves as a semantic component to form characters. Characters formed by the semantic component roof 宀 express meanings related to the house, home, or things done in a house. Characters formed by the semantic component 宀 There are 119 characters formed by the semantic component 宀. See also 穴 and 冖…
If a man finishes his farm working or has no farm working and stays at home, he is free and at leisure. What character is it if a man stays at home? 《说文》:“散也。从宀儿(人),人在屋下,无田事也。”儿,“人”的古文形体。本义:闲散
