xiā, há
shrimp
Phonosemantic compound. 虫 represents the meaning and 下 represents the sound. Simplified form of 蝦.
Evolution

Seal script
Shuowen (~100 AD)
Clerical script
Western Han dynasty (202 BC-9 AD)Traditional script
ModernSimplified script
ModernStatistics
Not found in HSK word list
Appears in 5.6223% of movies
2133rd most common character in movies
2847th most common character in books
Miscellaneous
Strokes | 9 |
Traditional | |
Unicode | U+867E |
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