mán

eel

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

Components
鱼 meaning component

  Meaning component

  

fish

曼 sound component

  Sound component

màn

  

long

Evolution

鳗 Seal script Shuowen (~100 AD)

Seal script

Shuowen (~100 AD)
鳗 Traditional script Modern

Traditional script

Modern
鳗 Simplified script Modern

Simplified script

Modern
Definitions

() 

mán

eel; Anguilla lostoniensis

Most common words with 鳗
Freq.
Word
Meaning

鳗鱼

eel

eel

电鳗

electric eel

鳗鲡

eel

Statistics

Not found in HSK word list

4152nd most common character in books

Miscellaneous

Strokes

19

Traditional

Unicode

U+9CD7


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