sāi

fish gills

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

Components
鱼 meaning component

  Meaning component

  

fish

思 sound component

  Sound component

  

think

Evolution

鳃 Traditional script Modern

Traditional script

Modern
鳃 Simplified script Modern

Simplified script

Modern
Definitions

() 

sāi

fish gills; gills of fish

Most common words with 鳃
Freq.
Word
Meaning

gills of fish

鳃裂

gill slit (in fish)

鳃弓

visceral arch (gill-bearing arch or its vestigial crease on sides of neck of vertebrates)

Statistics

Not found in HSK word list

3816th most common character in books

Miscellaneous

Strokes

17

Traditional

Unicode

U+9CC3


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