the edible water-frog

Evolution

鼃 Seal script Shuowen (~100 AD)

Seal script

Shuowen (~100 AD)
Definitions

 

the edible water-frog

() 

old variant of [wā]

Most common words with 鼃
Freq.
Word
Meaning

青蛙

frog

frog

蛙泳

breaststroke (swimming)

牛蛙

bullfrog

井底之蛙

the frog at the bottom of the well (idiom)

Historical pronunciation

Old Chinese

Middle Chinese

Pinyin

Gloss

*qʷˤre (MC -ae for -ea)

'wae

frog

*qʷˤre

'wea

frog

*m-qʷˤre (MC -ae for -ea)

hwae

frog

*m-qʷˤre

hwea

frog


Statistics

Not found in HSK word list

Appears in 2.9313% of movies

2438th most common character in movies

2904th most common character in books

Miscellaneous

Strokes

19

Unicode

U+9F03

Shuowen

“鼃,蝦蟇也。从黽,圭聲。”


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