shàn

eel

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

Components
鱼 meaning component

  Meaning component

  

fish

善 sound component

  Sound component

shàn

  

good

Evolution

鳝 Traditional script Modern

Traditional script

Modern
鳝 Simplified script Modern

Simplified script

Modern
Definitions

() 

shàn

eel; Chinese yellow eel

() 

shàn

variant of |[shàn]

Most common words with 鳝
Freq.
Word
Meaning

鳝鱼

eel

Chinese yellow eel

黄鳝

Asian swamp eel (Monopterus albus)

Statistics

Not found in HSK word list

4598th most common character in books

Miscellaneous

Strokes

20

Traditional

Unicode

U+9CDD


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