otter

Phonosemantic compound. represents the meaning and represents the sound. Simplified form of .

Components
犭 meaning component

  Meaning component

quǎn

  

dog

is a component form of .

赖 sound component

  Sound component

lài

  

depend on

Evolution

獭 Seal script Shuowen (~100 AD)

Seal script

Shuowen (~100 AD)
獭 Simplified script Modern

Simplified script

Modern
Definitions

() 

otter; Taiwan pr. [tà]

Most common words with 獭
Freq.
Word
Meaning

otter

水獭

otter

海獭

sea otter

旱獭

marmot

Statistics

Not found in HSK word list

Appears in 0.5286% of movies

3310th most common character in movies

4427th most common character in books

Miscellaneous

Strokes

16

Traditional

Unicode

U+736D


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