Chinese Character Wiki

鮎

nián

sheatfish

Evolution

鮎 Seal script Shuowen (~100 AD)

Seal script

Shuowen (~100 AD)
Definitions

鲇 (鮎) 

nián

sheatfish, parasilurus asotus; sheatfish (Parasilurus asotus); oriental catfish; see also 鯰|鲶[nián]

Statistics

Not found in HSK word list

4154th most common character in books

Miscellaneous

Strokes

16

Simplified

鲇

Unicode

U+9B8E

Shuowen

“鮎，也。从魚，占聲。”


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