shā

shark

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

Components
鱼 meaning component

  Meaning component

  

fish

沙 sound component

  Sound component

shā

  

sand

Evolution

鲨 Traditional script Modern

Traditional script

Modern
鲨 Simplified script Modern

Simplified script

Modern
Definitions

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shā

shark

Most common words with 鲨
Freq.
Word
Meaning

鲨鱼

shark

shark

鲸鲨

whale shark

Statistics

Not found in HSK word list

Appears in 4.1006% of movies

2047th most common character in movies

3664th most common character in books

Miscellaneous

Strokes

15

Traditional

Unicode

U+9CA8


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