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Kanji Detail for 餼 - "send, gift, grain, sacrifice"
餼
- Meaning
餼 means "send, gift, grain, sacrifice."
Send - To present food as a gift.
Gift - Something given.
Grain - Cereal crops.
Sacrifice - A live animal offered in ritual.
- Dictionary Citations
The meaning above is based on the following sources:
KANJIDIC2 A comprehensive Japanese-English kanji dictionary
sacrificial victim; gift; grain
Unihan Unicode Han Database for CJK characters
sacrificial victim; gift; grain
CC-CEDICT A Chinese-English dictionary
grain ration; sacrificial victim
Make Me a Hanzi Open-source Chinese character data
sacrficial victim; gift; grain
XSZD Xuéshēng Zìdiǎn (學生字典) - Student's Dictionary
Provisions given as a gift. The Zuo Commentary says: "Giving the people a zhong of grain per household." | Government stipend. In the Ming and Qing school system, outstanding students received government grain allowances and were called 廩生. Those who received such stipends are also said to 食餼. | A live sacrificial animal. The Analects says: "Zigong wished to do away with the sacrificial sheep for the announcement of the new moon." Because the ceremony of announcing the new moon had been abandoned, supplying the sheep was merely a formality.
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