zhēngqīng

mackerel

Phonosemantic compound. represents the meaning and represents the sound.

Components
魚 meaning component

  Meaning component

  

fish

青 sound component

  Sound component

qīng

  

green or blue

Evolution

鯖 Seal script Chu (Warring States: 475-221 BC)

Seal script

Chu (Warring States: 475-221 BC)
鯖 Regular script Modern

Regular script

Modern
Definitions

() 

zhēng

mackerel

() 

qīng

see 鯖魚|鲭鱼[qīng​yú]

Statistics

Not found in HSK word list

6310th most common character in books

Miscellaneous

Strokes

19

Simplified

Unicode

U+9BD6


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