Taxonomy of meanings for 饋:　　

  • 饋 kuì (OC: ɡruds MC: ɡʷɯi) 求位切 去 廣韻：【餉也 】
    • GIFT
      • ngift
    • GIVE
      • vtoNgive food as an unofficial present; give (something as a present); serve up
      • vt(oN)come with presents to the contextually determinate person(s), make presents to one
      • vtt(oN1.)+N2omto give a contextually determinate beneficiary N2 (something N1) as present
      • vttoN1.+N2make a present of N2 to N1
    • PROVIDE
      • EAT
        • FOOD
          • SUPPORT
            • PAY
              • SACRIFICE
              • kuìFEED
                • vtoNhave a meal served forCH
              • kuìMEAL
                • nabactmeal; the process of being served a mealCH

              Additional information about 饋

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                Criteria
              • GIVE

                1. The most general word for to give is probably yǔ 與 (ant. qǔ 取 "take away from").

                2. Wèi 遺 and wěi 委 refer to any act of giving something to someone in permanence and for keeping.

                3. Cì 賜 can refer to an act of charity or to any giving of anything, typically from a person in authority to inferiors.

                4. Zèng 贈 refers to formal presents to an inferior from a person in high authority.

                5. Yí 貽 is an archaic colourless word for giving something away to someone of one's own volition, and the recipient may be of higher status than oneself.

                6. Zhì 致 is to hand over something or to pass something on to someone.

                7. Kuì 饋 typicall refers quite specifically to the conferring of a gift of food.

                8. Fù 賦 refers to giving something as reward or recompensation to somebody, typically to a person of lower status.

                9. Shòu 授 refers to the physical act of handing something over to a recipient.

              • GIFT

                NB: all the words below are derived from semantically corresponding verbs for to give and could be subsumed under these:

                1. The general current word for any generous gift is cì 賜, and the general completely neutral term for a gift is wèi 遺.

                2. Huì 賄 and lù 賂 are words for "gift" which is often given with an ulterior purpose, and the word regularly comes to mean "bribe", especially in the current binome huì lù 賄賂 "bribe".

                3. Kuì 饋 refers to a ritual gift.

                4. Xiàn 獻 is occasionally used for a gift to superiors.

                Word relations
              • Assoc: (GIFT)賂/GIFT Huì 賄 and lù 賂 are words for "gift" which is often given with an ulterior purpose, and the word regularly comes to mean "bribe", especially in the current binome huì lù 賄賂 "bribe".
              • Oppos: (GIVE)拜/ACCEPT Bài 拜 is sometimes used by itself to signify very polite acceptance of an offer. >>POLITE