Chinese Character Wiki

鯖

zhēng, qīng

mackerel

Phonosemantic compound. 魚 represents the meaning and 青 represents the sound.

Components
魚 meaning component

魚  Meaning component

yú

  

fish

青 sound component

青  Sound component

qīng

  

green or blue

Evolution

鯖 Seal script Chu (Warring States: 475-221 BC)

Seal script

Chu (Warring States: 475-221 BC)
鯖 Regular script Modern

Regular script

Modern
Definitions

鲭 (鯖) 

zhēng

mackerel

鲭 (鯖) 

qīng

see 鯖魚|鲭鱼[qīng​yú]

Statistics

Not found in HSK word list

6310th most common character in books

Miscellaneous

Strokes

19

Simplified

鲭

Unicode

U+9BD6


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