zéi

cuttlefish

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approved by inralback19 · Nov 23, 2025, 08:25 PM · Reviewed by Peter Olson on Nov 24, 2025, 09:58 PM

fish

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Components

Meaning component
Sound component

Character Evolution

Seal form
Seal Shuowen ~100 AD
Seal form
Seal Shuowen ~100 AD
Regular Modern

Historical Pronunciations

Old Chinese
Zhengzhangzɯːɡ

說文解字

《說文》:“鰂,烏鰂,魚名,則聲。鯽,鰂或从即。”

Sources

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