鮎
nián

sheatfish

Character Evolution

Seal form
Seal Shuowen ~100 AD

Historical Pronunciations

Old Chinese
Zhengzhangneːm

說文解字

𩷑也。从魚占聲。

Sources

Readings & variants
Unicode
Historical pronunciations
Zhengzhang Shangfang
Historical images
Academia Sinica
Etymology
Shuowen Jiezi (說文解字)

鲇 nián sheatfish Simplified

Phonosemantic compound. 鱼 represents the meaning and 占 represents the sound. Simplified form of 鮎.

Components

鱼
鱼 Meaning component
yú fish
占
占 Sound component
zhàn divine

Sources

Readings & variants
Unicode