guān
huge fish
Evolution

Bronze script
Early Western Zhou (~1000 BC)
Seal script
Shuowen (~100 AD)
Clerical script
Eastern Han dynasty (25-220 AD)
Clerical script
Eastern Han dynasty (25-220 AD)Regular script
ModernMost common words with 鰥
Freq. | Word | Meaning |
---|---|---|
widower | ||
widower | ||
fig. people with no one left to rely on |
Historical pronunciation
Old Chinese | Middle Chinese | Pinyin | Gloss |
*[k]ʷˤrə[n] | kwean | guān | widower |
*[k]ʷˤrə[n] | kwean | guān | a kind of fish |
Statistics
Not found in HSK word list
5382nd most common character in books
Miscellaneous
Strokes | 21 |
Simplified | |
Unicode | U+9C25 |
Shuowen | “鰥,魚也。从魚,眔聲。” |
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