饗きょう

also: あえ

きょ

う

Freq.FrequencyTop 100,000

Meanings

feast; banquet; entertaining guests

archaic

Archaic noun for hosting a feast or treating someone to food and drink. In modern Japanese, this concept is expressed with words like 饗宴 (きょうえん) or もてなし.

古ふるい文ぶん献けんでは、王おうが臣しん下かを饗きょうしたと記しるされている。
In old documents, it is recorded that the king feasted his retainers.
「饗きょう」は、現げん代だいではほとんど使つかわれない漢かん字じだ。
The kanji 饗 is hardly used in modern times.

Kanji

饗banquet

Related words

饗きょう宴えん
饗宴 is the modern word for a feast or banquet, while 饗 is an archaic single-character noun with the same meaning.
もてなし
もてなし is the common modern term for hospitality or entertaining guests, replacing the archaic 饗.

Word family

饗きょう宴えん
feast; banquet
大たい饗きょう
large banquet; grand feast · court banquet (Heian period)
饗きょうす
treat to a feast; provide dinner for
供きょう応おう
entertaining with food and drink; wining and dining; treating to a meal
饗きょうする
treat to a feast; provide a banquet for

Written forms

饗Usage100%
- きょう
  Archaic kanji spelling; the word is rarely used in modern Japanese.
- あえ
あえ
Alternate reading; also archaic and rarely encountered.

Etymology

The kanji 饗 has historically been used to mean a feast or banquet. The reading きょう is the on'yomi, and あえ is a rare kun'yomi. The word itself is archaic and its exact derivation is uncertain.