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Ideogrammic compound (會意 / 会意) : 皀(“bowl of rice”) + 旡(“kneeling figure”) – person kneeling at bowl of rice – sitting down to eat (rice already finished cooking), turning away (already finished eating) or abstaining from eating or consuming.
Note the stroke order in the right component 旡, which may not be clear in the compressed form of this character: the left vertical and second horizontal are one stroke with a corner, while the upper right vertical continues in a diagonal stroke to lower left.
Etymology
Maybe Sino-Tibetan (Schuessler, 2007). Exopassive (perfective) of 訖/讫 (qì, “to finish”); possibly cognate to 暨 (jì, “to reach”), yet see there.
nd thence proceeded to the love of (all in) the nine classes of his kindred, who (thus) became harmonious. He (also) regulated and polished the people (of his domain).
And the LORD God said unto the serpent, Because thou hast done this, thou art cursed above all cattle, and above every beast of the field; upon thy belly shalt thou go, and dust shalt thou eat all the days of thy life