饷
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soldier's pay
- Strokes
- 9
- Radical
- 食 +6
- Structure
- Left–right 左右
- Traditional
- 餉
- Common rank
- #3,400
- Unicode
- U+9977
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Formation & memory
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Words with 饷
The most common words first — learning a character in context makes it stick.
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 吃空饷 | to embezzle by adding to the payroll employees existing in name only | |
| 关饷 | to receive one's salary; to pay sb's wages | |
| 军饷 | a soldier's pay and provisions | |
| 兵饷 | pay and provisions for soldiers | |
| 饷银 | (old) pay; wages (esp. for soldiers) | |
| 粮饷 | army provisions | |
| 薪饷 | (old) (military and police) pay; wages; (Tw) salary |
Sound family
Characters sharing the sound component 向 — compare how they read.