carp

Components

Meaning component
fish

fish

Sound component
fù, fu pay, hand over

Sources

Readings & variants
Unicode

carp Traditional

Character Evolution

Seal form
Seal Shuowen ~100 AD
Clerical form
Clerical Qin 221-206 BC
Clerical form
Clerical Western Han 202 BC-9 AD

Historical Pronunciations

Old Chinese
Zhengzhangbos

說文解字

魚名。从魚付聲。

Sources

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