é

goose

Phonosemantic compound. represents the meaning and represents the sound.

Components
鳥 meaning component

  Meaning component

niǎodiǎo

  

bird

我 sound component

  Sound component

  

I; me

Evolution

鵝 Seal script Shuowen (~100 AD)

Seal script

Shuowen (~100 AD)
鵝 Regular script Modern

Regular script

Modern
Definitions

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é

goose; CL:|[zhī]

Most common words with 鵝
Freq.
Word
Meaning

goose

企鹅

penguin

天鹅

swan

天鹅绒

velvet

鹅卵石

pebble

Historical pronunciation

Old Chinese

Middle Chinese

Pinyin

Gloss

*ŋˤa[r]

nga

é

goose


Statistics

Not found in HSK word list

Appears in 4.9495% of movies

2148th most common character in movies

2172nd most common character in books

Miscellaneous

Strokes

18

Simplified

Unicode

U+9D5D

Shuowen

“,鴚鵝也。从鳥,我聲。”


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