mán

eel

Phonosemantic compound. represents the meaning and represents the sound.

Components
魚 meaning component

  Meaning component

  

fish

曼 sound component

  Sound component

màn

  

long

Evolution

鰻 Seal script Shuowen (~100 AD)

Seal script

Shuowen (~100 AD)
鰻 Regular script Modern

Regular script

Modern
Definitions

() 

mán

eel; Anguilla lostoniensis

Most common words with 鰻
Freq.
Word
Meaning

鳗鱼

eel

eel

电鳗

electric eel

鳗鲡

eel

Statistics

Not found in HSK word list

4152nd most common character in books

Miscellaneous

Strokes

22

Simplified

Unicode

U+9C3B

Shuowen

“鰻,魚名。从魚,曼聲。”


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