Amazing Chinese Characters (615) Rich - 饶（饒）

 The big seal script of character Rich is 

The left is character Eat (Post 190), which is also Food as a noun. The right part is character Emperor Yao (Post 612). If you were a kiln worker of making bricks in ancient time (3000+ years ago), you were doing the most advantaged technical job, you could make big money, therefore you had enough and good foods to eat, the life only rich people could enjoy at that time.

The small seal script of character Rich is

The left is character Eat or Food, the right is character Emperor Yao, similar to big seal script.

The clerical script of character Rich is 

The left is character Eat or Food, the right is character Emperor Yao.

The simplified song typeface of the character is

The left is Radical Food, the right is simplified song typeface of character Emperor Yao.

The Pinyin of the character is Rao2.

There is another character Rich - 富 (Post 195), which means that there are wine jars in the house. Ancient time, society didn't have enough food to feed people, therefore, people who had extra food to make wine must be rich. 

The two are synonyms, people often put the together to form a word 富饶（富饒）. The meaning is same as any single character, but it is a good way to avoid the confusion caused by homophones. If you only use one character, people may have more difficult to identify its really meaning. If you use two-character word, people are much easier to identify the combination of two characters. There may be other benefits but this one is obvious.