yā
duck
Phonosemantic compound. 鳥 represents the meaning and 甲 represents the sound.
Evolution

Seal script
Shuowen (~100 AD)Regular script
ModernMost common words with 鴨
Freq. | Word | Meaning |
---|---|---|
duck | ||
duck | ||
Chinese white pear (Pyrus × bretschneideri) | ||
roast duck | ||
wild duck |
Statistics
Not found in HSK word list
Appears in 5.6223% of movies
2121st most common character in movies
2133rd most common character in books
Miscellaneous
Strokes | 16 |
Simplified | |
Unicode | U+9D28 |
Shuowen | 《說文新附》:“鴨,鶩也。俗謂之鴨。从鳥,甲聲。” |
Sources
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