yú​qiáo

fishermen and woodcutters

to fish Simplified

Simplified form of . Depicts catching fish () from the water (). In many ancient forms, it was mostly written either as two hands holding a net catching a fish or four fish swimming in a stream of water.

Components

Iconic component
shui, shuǐ water

is a component form of .

SoundIconic component
fish

also represents the sound.

Sources

Character origin
漢語多功能字庫
Readings & variants
Unicode

qiáo woodcutter

Wood  for burning  also provides the pronunciation

Components

Meaning component
tree
SoundMeaning component
jiāo burned

Character Evolution

Seal form
Seal Shuowen ~100 AD
Regular Modern

Historical Pronunciations

Middle ChineseOld Chinese
Zhengzhangzew
Unicodedzhiɛu

說文解字

𢿱也。从木焦聲。

Sources

Readings & variants
Unicode
Historical pronunciations
Zhengzhang Shangfang
Historical images
Academia Sinica

to fish Traditional

Depicts catching fish () from the water (). In many ancient forms, it was mostly written either as two hands holding a net catching a fish or four fish swimming in a stream of water.

Components

Iconic component
shui, shuǐ water

is a component form of .

SoundIconic component
fish

also represents the sound.


Character Evolution

Oracle form
Oracle Bone ~1250-1000 BC
Oracle form
Oracle Bone ~1250-1000 BC
Oracle form
Oracle Bone ~1250-1000 BC
Oracle form
Oracle Bone ~1250-1000 BC
Oracle form
Oracle Bone ~1250-1000 BC
Bronze form
Bronze Late Shang ~1100 BC
Bronze form
Bronze Early Western Zhou ~1000 BC
Bronze form
Bronze Mid Western Zhou ~900 BC
Bronze form
Bronze Late Spring and Autumn ~500 BC
Seal form
Seal Shuowen ~100 AD
Seal form
Seal Shuowen ~100 AD
Clerical form
Clerical Qin 221-206 BC
Clerical form
Clerical Western Han 202 BC-9 AD
Clerical form
Clerical Western Han 202 BC-9 AD
Clerical form
Clerical Western Han 202 BC-9 AD
Clerical form
Clerical Eastern Han 25-220 AD
Regular Modern

Historical Pronunciations

Middle ChineseOld ChineseGloss
Baxter-Sagartngjo[ŋ](r)a to fish

說文解字

《說文》:“,捕魚也。从,从水。漁,篆文从魚。”

Sources

Character origin
漢語多功能字庫
Readings & variants
Unicode
Historical pronunciations
Baxter-Sagart
Historical images
Academia Sinica