guān

huge fish

Components
鱼 meaning component

  Meaning component

  

fish

fish

眔 sound component

  Sound component

  

reach to

Evolution

鳏 Bronze script Early Western Zhou (~1000 BC)

Bronze script

Early Western Zhou (~1000 BC)
鳏 Seal script Shuowen (~100 AD)

Seal script

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

Clerical script

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

Traditional script

Modern
鳏 Simplified script Modern

Simplified script

Modern
Definitions

() 

guān

huge fish; widower; bachelor

Most common words with 鳏
Freq.
Word
Meaning

鳏夫

widower

widower

鳏寡孤独

fig. people with no one left to rely on

Statistics

Not found in HSK word list

5382nd most common character in books

Miscellaneous

Strokes

18

Traditional

Unicode

U+9CCF


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