gěng

fish bones

Evolution

鯁 Seal script Shuowen (~100 AD)

Seal script

Shuowen (~100 AD)
Definitions

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gěng

fish bones; honest, upright; to choke on a piece of food; (literary) a fish bone lodged in one's throat

Most common words with 鯁
Freq.
Word
Meaning

blunt

如鲠在喉

lit. as if having a fish bone stuck in one's throat (idiom)

骨鲠在喉

sth on one's mind

骨鲠

fish bone

鲠直

honest

Statistics

Not found in HSK word list

5612th most common character in books

Miscellaneous

Strokes

18

Simplified

Unicode

U+9BC1

Shuowen

“鯁,魚骨也。从魚,更聲。”


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