carp

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

Components
鱼 meaning component

  Meaning component

  

fish

里 sound component

  Sound component

  

village

Evolution

鲤 Seal script Shuowen (~100 AD)

Seal script

Shuowen (~100 AD)
鲤 Clerical script Eastern Han dynasty (25-220 AD)

Clerical script

Eastern Han dynasty (25-220 AD)
鲤 Traditional script Modern

Traditional script

Modern
鲤 Simplified script Modern

Simplified script

Modern
Definitions

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carp

Most common words with 鲤
Freq.
Word
Meaning

鲤鱼

carp

carp

鲤城区

Licheng district of Quanzhou city 泉州市[Quán​zhōu​shì], Fujian

鲤鱼跳龙门

to get one's big break

鲮鲤

scaly ant-eater

Statistics

Not found in HSK word list

3204th most common character in books

Miscellaneous

Strokes

15

Traditional

Unicode

U+9CA4


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