little lamb

Phonosemantic compound. represents the meaning and represents the sound.

Components
大 sound component

  Sound component

dài

  

big

羊 meaning component

  Meaning component

yáng

  

sheep

Evolution

羍 Seal script Shuowen (~100 AD)

Seal script

Shuowen (~100 AD)
羍 Seal script Shuowen (~100 AD)

Seal script

Shuowen (~100 AD)
羍 Regular script Modern

Regular script

Modern
Definitions

 

little lamb

Component uses

Sound component in 1 character (1 verified)

Statistics

Not found in HSK word list

Miscellaneous

Strokes

9

Unicode

U+7F8D

Shuowen

“羍,小羊也。从羊,大聲。讀若達。,羍或省。”


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