wěi

kind of sturgeon

Phonosemantic compound. represents the meaning and represents the sound.

Components
魚 meaning component

  Meaning component

  

fish

有 sound component

  Sound component

yǒu

  

have

Evolution

鮪 Seal script Shuowen (~100 AD)

Seal script

Shuowen (~100 AD)
鮪 Seal script Western Han dynasty (202 BC-9 AD)

Seal script

Western Han dynasty (202 BC-9 AD)
鮪 Seal script Western Han dynasty (202 BC-9 AD)

Seal script

Western Han dynasty (202 BC-9 AD)
鮪 Regular script Modern

Regular script

Modern
Definitions

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wěi

kind of sturgeon, tuna; little tuna; Euthynnus alletteratus

Most common words with 鮪
Freq.
Word
Meaning

little tuna

鲔鱼

tuna

Historical pronunciation

Old Chinese

Middle Chinese

Pinyin

Gloss

*[ɢ]ʷrəʔ

hwijX

wěi

sturgeon


Statistics

Not found in HSK word list

6069th most common character in books

Miscellaneous

Strokes

17

Simplified

Unicode

U+9BAA

Shuowen

“鮪,鮥也。《周禮》:春獻王鮪,从魚,有聲。”


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