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Oracle Bone ~1250-1000 BC
Oracle Bone ~1250-1000 BC
Oracle Bone ~1250-1000 BC
Oracle Bone ~1250-1000 BC
Oracle Bone ~1250-1000 BC
Bronze Late Shang ~1100 BC
Bronze Early Western Zhou ~1000 BC
Bronze Mid Western Zhou ~900 BC
Bronze Late Spring and Autumn ~500 BC
Seal Shuowen ~100 AD
Seal Shuowen ~100 AD
Clerical Qin 221-206 BC
Clerical Western Han 202 BC-9 AD
Clerical Western Han 202 BC-9 AD
Clerical Western Han 202 BC-9 AD
Clerical Eastern Han 25-220 AD Regular Modern
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Depicts catching fish (魚) from the water (氵). 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
Character Evolution
Historical Pronunciations
| Middle Chinese | Old Chinese | Gloss | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Baxter-Sagart | ngjo | [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
- Etymology
- Shuowen Jiezi (說文解字)