蜜饯蜜餞 in English

Character breakdown

• 蜜 mì honey
• 饯餞 jiàn farewell dinner

How it used to be written

蜜

• Chu manuscripts 戰國.楚
• Clerical script 曹魏
• See all 4 forms

饯

These are the forms of 餞, the traditional character: 饯 is a twentieth-century simplification, found in no ancient corpus.

• Small seal script

Forms, sources and dates: the 字形演變 database of 小學堂, Academia Sinica, public domain (CC0).