餸

餸 U+9938, 餸 CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-9938 ← 餷 [U+9937] CJK Unified Ideographs 餹 → [U+9939]

Translingual

Han character

餸 (Kangxi radical 184, 食+10, 19 strokes, cangjie input 人戈卜廿大 (OIYTK), composition ⿰飠送)

References

• Kangxi Dictionary: not present, would follow page 1424, character 17
• Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 7, page 4468, character 7
• Unihan data for U+9938

Chinese

trad.		餸
simp.		𩠌

Glyph origin

Phono-semantic compound (形聲 / 形声) and ideogrammic compound (會意 / 会意) : semantic 食 + phonetic 送 (sung3).

Etymology

From 送 (sung³, “to accompany (a staple food)”) (Chan, 1998).

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): sòng (song⁴)

  (Zhuyin): ㄙㄨㄥˋ

• Cantonese

  (Guangzhou–Hong Kong, Jyutping): sung³

  (Taishan, Wiktionary): lhuung⁴

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: sòng
    • Zhuyin: ㄙㄨㄥˋ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: sòng
    • Wade–Giles: sung⁴
    • Yale: sùng
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: sonq
    • Palladius: сун (sun)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /sʊŋ⁵¹/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)
    • Jyutping: sung³
    • Yale: sung
    • Cantonese Pinyin: sung³
    • Guangdong Romanization: sung³
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /sʊŋ³³/
  • (Taishanese, Taicheng)
    • Wiktionary: lhuung⁴
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /ɬɵŋ²¹/

Definitions

餸

1. (Cantonese) a dish served to accompany rice or other staple food

   整餸／整𩠌 [Cantonese]  ―  zing² sung³ [Jyutping]  ―  to prepare a dish/dishes

   今晚食乜餸啊？ [Cantonese, trad.]
   今晚食乜𩠌啊？ [Cantonese, simp.]

   gam¹ maan^5-1 sik⁶ mat¹ sung³ aa³? [Jyutping]

   What are we eating tonight? (lit. What dishes are we eating with our rice tonight?)

2. (Cantonese) grocery; ingredient for dishes

Synonyms

Dialectal synonyms of 菜 (“dish; vegetable or meat dish”) [map]

Variety	Location	Words edit
Formal (Written Standard Chinese)		菜餚, 菜品, 菜蔬
Northeastern Mandarin	Beijing	菜
	Taiwan	菜
	Singapore	菜
Jilu Mandarin	Tianjin	菜
	Jinan	菜
Central Plains Mandarin	Xi'an	菜
Southwestern Mandarin	Chengdu	菜
	Wuhan	菜
	Guiyang	下飯菜
	Guilin	菜
Jianghuai Mandarin	Yangzhou	菜
	Hefei	菜
Cantonese	Guangzhou	餸, 餸菜
	Hong Kong	餸, 餸菜
	Hong Kong (Kam Tin; Weitou)	餸菜
	Macau	餸
	Guangzhou (Panyu)	餸
	Guangzhou (Huashan, Huadu)	餸
	Guangzhou (Conghua)	餸
	Guangzhou (Zengcheng)	餸
	Foshan	餸
	Foshan (Shatou, Nanhai)	餸
	Foshan (Shunde)	餸
	Foshan (Sanshui)	餸
	Foshan (Mingcheng, Gaoming)	餸
	Zhongshan (Shiqi)	餸
	Zhuhai (Qianshan, Xiangzhou)	餸
	Zhuhai (Shangheng, Doumen; Tanka)	餸
	Zhuhai (Doumen)	餸
	Jiangmen (Baisha)	餸
	Jiangmen (Xinhui)	餸
	Taishan	餸, 餸菜
	Kaiping (Chikan)	餸
	Enping (Niujiang)	餸
	Heshan (Yayao)	餸
	Dongguan	餸
	Shenzhen (Shajing, Bao'an)	餸
	Yangjiang	餸
	Beihai	餸
	Beihai (Qiaogang - Cô Tô)	菜
	Beihai (Qiaogang - Cát Bà)	菜
	Fangchenggang (Fangcheng)	菜
	Sanya (Yanglan; Maihua)	菜餸
	Kuala Lumpur (Guangfu)	餸
	Singapore (Guangfu)	餸
	Ho Chi Minh City (Guangfu)	餸
	Móng Cái	菜
Gan	Nanchang	菜
Hakka	Meixian	菜
Jin	Taiyuan	菜
Northern Min	Jian'ou	菜
	Songxi	菜
	Jianyang	菜
Eastern Min	Fuzhou	配
	Gutian	配飯菜
	Fuding	乇配
Southern Min	Xiamen	物配, 菜配, 菜
	Quanzhou	物配, 菜
	Yongchun	菜
	Zhangzhou	物配
	Singapore (Hokkien)	物配, 菜配
	Manila (Hokkien)	物配
	Longyan	配
	Zhangping (Yongfu)	配
	Chaozhou	物配
	Jieyang	物配
	Leizhou	物配, 配
Puxian Min	Putian	物配
	Putian (Donghai, Chengxiang)	物配
	Putian (Jiangkou, Hanjiang)	物配
	Putian (Nanri, Xiuyu)	物配
	Xianyou	物配
	Xianyou (Fengting)	物配
	Xianyou (Youyang)	物配
Central Min	Yong'an	菜
	Sanming (Shaxian)	配
Zhongshan Min	Zhongshan (Longdu, Shaxi)	配
	Zhongshan (Sanxiang)	配
Wu	Shanghai	小菜
	Suzhou	小菜
	Jiaxing	鹹酸
	Shaoxing	下飯
	Ningbo	下飯, 菜蔬, 小菜 rare
	Zhoushan	下飯, 菜蔬, 小菜 rare
	Wenzhou	配, 餚配
Xiang	Changsha	菜
	Shuangfeng	菜

Compounds

• 三餸一湯 / 三𩠌一汤 (saam¹ sung³ jat¹ tong¹) (Cantonese)
• 三餸飯 / 三𩠌饭 (Cantonese)
• 兩餸飯 / 两𩠌饭 (loeng⁵ sung³ faan⁶) (Cantonese)
• 方太教煮餸——整定 / 方太教煮𩠌——整定 (fong¹ taai^3-2 gaau³ zyu² sung³, zing² ding⁶) (Cantonese)
• 炒餸 / 炒𩠌 (Cantonese)
• 煮餸 / 煮𩠌 (Cantonese)
• 睇餸食飯 / 睇𩠌食饭 (tai² sung³ sik⁶ faan⁶) (Cantonese)
• 買餸 / 买𩠌 (maai⁵ sung³) (Cantonese)
• 隔夜餸 / 隔夜𩠌 (gaak³ je⁶ sung³) (Cantonese)
• 飯餸 / 饭𩠌 (Cantonese)