yāng
female mandarin duck (Aix galericulata)
Phonosemantic compound. 鳥 represents the meaning and 央 represents the sound.
Evolution
Seal script
Shuowen (~100 AD)Regular script
ModernMost common words with 鴦
Freq. | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
(fig.) affectionate couple | ||
mandarin duck | ||
fig. to make love | ||
wild mandarin duck |
Historical pronunciation
Old Chinese | Middle Chinese | Pinyin | Gloss |
*ʔaŋ | 'jang | yāng | female mandarin duck |
Statistics
Not found in HSK word list
3975th most common character in books
Miscellaneous
Strokes | 16 |
Simplified | |
Unicode | U+9D26 |
Shuowen | “鴦，鴛鴦也。从鳥，央聲。” |
Sources
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