zéi, jì
Carassius auratus
Phonosemantic compound. 魚 represents the meaning and 即 represents the sound.
Evolution

Seal script
Shuowen (~100 AD)
Seal script
Shuowen (~100 AD)Regular script
ModernStatistics
Not found in HSK word list
4198th most common character in books
Miscellaneous
Strokes | 18 |
Simplified | |
Unicode | U+9BFD |
Shuowen | “鰂,烏鰂,魚名,則聲。鯽,鰂或从即。” |
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