é
goose
Phonosemantic compound. 鳥 represents the meaning and 我 represents the sound.
Evolution
Seal script
Shuowen (~100 AD)Regular script
ModernHistorical pronunciation
Old Chinese | Middle Chinese | Pinyin | Gloss |
*ŋˤa[r] | nga | é | goose |
Statistics
Not found in HSK word list
Appears in 4.9495% of movies
2148th most common character in movies
2172nd most common character in books
Miscellaneous
Strokes | 18 |
Simplified | |
Unicode | U+9D5D |
Shuowen | “，鴚鵝也。从鳥，我聲。” |
Sources
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