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餐
餐 ＝ 食 ＋ 𣦼
ㄘㄢ · cān
noun — a meal; verb — to eat
字源 FORM — what the parts do
𣦼聲gives the sounda hand 又 over a stripped bone 歹 — alive mainly inside 餐
Tcán → cān — only the tone bends
Food (食) going down — 說文 glosses 餐 as 吞, to swallow. The top, a hand (又) over a stripped bone (歹), gives the sound, tone straightened to cān. From the swallowing to the sitting itself: 早餐、晚餐、餐廳.
故事 STORY — a scene to remember it by
手（又）撕肉，骨頭（歹）啃得乾乾淨淨，一鍋飯（食）見了底。
A hand (又) tears the meat, the bone (歹) comes away clean, the pot of rice (食) shows its bottom.
字源記憶法
意 · Meanings
(本義)吞食— to swallow food down
→早餐、晚餐— a meal常用
⇒餐廳— the dining hall
(本義) original meaning · → ⇒ each arrow = one more step of extension