zōuZōu

small fish

Components

Meaning component
fish
Sound component
take

fish

Character Evolution

Seal form
Seal Shuowen ~100 AD
Regular Modern

Historical Pronunciations

Old Chinese
Zhengzhangzloː
zloːʔ
sʰlo

說文解字

《說文》:“鯫,白魚也。从魚,取聲。”

Sources

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

zōu small fish Simplified

Components

Meaning component
fish
Sound component
take

fish

Sources

Readings & variants
Unicode