guī

salmon

Phonosemantic compound. represents the meaning and represents the sound.

Components
魚 meaning component

  Meaning component

  

fish

圭 sound component

  Sound component

guī

  

jade pointed at top

Evolution

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

Seal script

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

Regular script

Modern
Definitions

() 

guī

salmon; spheroides vermicularis; trout

Most common words with 鮭
Freq.
Word
Meaning

鲑鱼

salmon

trout

Statistics

Not found in HSK word list

Appears in 1.4256% of movies

3064th most common character in movies

4340th most common character in books

Miscellaneous

Strokes

17

Simplified

Unicode

U+9BAD


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