xiā, há
shrimp
Phonosemantic compound. 虫 represents the meaning and 叚 represents the sound.
Evolution
Seal script
Shuowen (~100 AD)
Clerical script
Western Han dynasty (202 BC-9 AD)Regular script
ModernHistorical pronunciation
Old Chinese | Middle Chinese | Pinyin | Gloss |
*[g]ˤra | hae | há | hae-mae frog |
*[g]ˤra | hae | xiā | shrimp |
Statistics
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 | 15 |
Simplified | |
Unicode | U+8766 |
Shuowen | “蝦，蝦蟆也。从虫，叚聲。” |
Sources
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