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Carassius auratus

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

Components
鱼 meaning component

  Meaning component

  

fish

即 sound component

  Sound component

  

promptly

Evolution

鲫 Seal script Shuowen (~100 AD)

Seal script

Shuowen (~100 AD)
鲫 Seal script Shuowen (~100 AD)

Seal script

Shuowen (~100 AD)
鲫 Traditional script Modern

Traditional script

Modern
鲫 Simplified script Modern

Simplified script

Modern
Definitions

() 

zéi

Carassius auratus, crucian carp

() 

bastard carp; sand perch

Most common words with 鲫
Freq.
Word
Meaning

鲫鱼

Crucian carp

bastard carp

Statistics

Not found in HSK word list

4198th most common character in books

Miscellaneous

Strokes

15

Traditional

Unicode

U+9CAB


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