zé
marsh
Phonosemantic compound. 氵 represents the meaning and 睪 represents the sound.
Evolution

Seal script
Shuowen (~100 AD)
Clerical script
Eastern Han dynasty (25-220 AD)Regular script
ModernDefinitions
Most common words with 澤
Freq. | Word | Meaning |
---|---|---|
Mao Zedong (1893-1976), Chinese communist leader | ||
New Jersey, US state | ||
pool | ||
Maoism | ||
marsh |
Historical pronunciation
Old Chinese | Middle Chinese | Pinyin | Gloss |
*lˤrak | draek | zé | marsh; moisture |
Statistics
Not found in HSK word list
Appears in 11.1805% of movies
1598th most common character in movies
951st most common character in books
Miscellaneous
Strokes | 16 |
Simplified | |
Unicode | U+6FA4 |
Shuowen | “澤,光潤也。从水,睪聲。” |
Sources
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