zōu

small fish

Components
魚 sound component

  Sound component

  

fish

取 meaning component

  Meaning component

  

take

fish

Evolution

鯫 Seal script Shuowen (~100 AD)

Seal script

Shuowen (~100 AD)
鯫 Regular script Modern

Regular script

Modern
Definitions

() 

zōu

small fish; small; minnow; minnows

() 

Zōu

surname Zou

Statistics

Not found in HSK word list

5526th most common character in books

Miscellaneous

Strokes

19

Simplified

Unicode

U+9BEB

Shuowen

“鯫,白魚也。从魚,取聲。”


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