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鲖

鮦
tóng
noun

Meanings

  1. 1 (classical) snakehead fish; an old name for the snakehead

Examples

HSK 1
他和我做了多年的同学。
Tā hé wǒ zuò le duō nián de tóngxué.
He and I have been classmates for many years.

Tips

history
No standalone use in modern Chinese; a classical name for the snakehead fish, surviving in old natural-history texts and the place name 鲖城. It is the fish radical 鱼 plus phonetic 同.
register
Classical and literary only; encountered in old texts, replaced by common names in modern use.

Components

radical
鱼 yú
fish
The fish radical on the left, a pictograph of a fish. It supplies the meaning, marking the word as a species of fish, the same family as 鲢 and 鳐.
phonetic
同 tóng
same; together; phonetic
The right side carries the sound tóng exactly. The same phonetic gives the reading of 桐 and 铜; here it lends pronunciation only.

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Stroke Order

鲖 tóng