飽

• Core sense: Satiety; to eat one's fill; to be full.
• Socio-political extension: In contexts of governance or population, may function as a proxy for general prosperity, stability, or being adequately provided for.
• Abstract extensions: Sufficiency or saturation (more characteristic of later technical or philosophical texts).

• Function: Primarily a stative verb or adjective.
• Aspect: May function as a resultative (the process of becoming full) or a state of being (being sated).
• Implicit Object: The object (food/sustenance) is generally implicit.

Often appears in binary opposition with 飢 (hunger) to denote the broader state of abundance versus deprivation.

Simplified variant: 饱 (U+9971).

The 食 radical anchors the glyph to meanings of ingestion and sustenance, distinguishing it from other characters sharing the 包 phonetic that relate to wrapping or containment.

Exercise caution when applying abstract senses (such as "sufficiency") to early classical passages unless supported by syntax.