mán

eel

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Phonosemantic compound. represents the meaning and represents the sound.

Components

Meaning component
fish
Sound component
màn long

Character Evolution

Seal form
Seal Shuowen ~100 AD
Regular Modern

Historical Pronunciations

Old Chinese
Zhengzhangmoːn
mons

說文解字

《說文》:“鰻,魚名。从魚,曼聲。”

Sources

Character origin
漢語多功能字庫
Readings & variants
Unicode
Historical pronunciations
Zhengzhang Shangfang
Historical images
Academia Sinica