U+994B "饋" CJK Unified Ideograph-# Unicode Character
U+994B "饋" CJK Unified Ideograph-# is a Chinese character traditionally meaning "to offer food" or "to present a gift," often specifically referring to the act of giving food as a tribute or donation. In modern usage, it appears in compounds like "饋贈" (kuìzèng), meaning "to present a gift," and "反饋" (fǎnkuì), meaning "feedback" in the sense of returning information, a sense that evolved from the original concept of returning or giving back. The character is composed of the radical 食 (food, eating) on the left, indicating its semantic connection to food, and the phonetic component 貴 (guì, meaning "precious" or "expensive") on the right, which contributes to its pronunciation. This character is used across multiple East Asian writing systems, including Traditional Chinese, Japanese, and Korean Hanja, with slight contextual variations.