飨

饗

xiǎng

Rank #4720

xiǎng (literary) to offer food and drinks; to entertain

Phonosemantic compound. 食 represents the meaning and 乡 represents the sound. Simplified form of 饗.

Semantic: 食 Phonetic: 乡

Oracle (~1250-1000 BC)

Bronze Late Shang dynasty (~1100 BC)

Seal Shuowen (~100 AD)

Clerical Western Han dynasty (202 BC-9 AD)

Clerical Eastern Han dynasty (25-220 AD)

Traditional Modern

Simplified Modern

Component: 乡

Component: 食

乡食