What 鱉 means
It means “soft-shelled turtle” in Chinese.
The Shuowen Jiezi, an early Chinese character dictionary, records the older graph 鼈 around 100 CE. In that graph, 黽 marks the animal class and 敝 supplies the sound; character dictionaries also list 鼈 as a variant of 鱉.
The word can also name fern shoots. 魚鱉 groups fish and soft-shelled turtles as edible aquatic life; 鱉悶 and 鱉燥 describe pent-up frustration or agitation.
Neutral as an animal name; compounds can be literary, figurative, or insulting.
鱉鳥 is an insult for a stubborn person, not a neutral animal reference.
Who writes 鱉
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Related characters
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CJK Unified Ideograph-9Cd6
鳖 is the Simplified Chinese form corresponding to Traditional Chinese 鱉; both write the same word for a soft-shelled turtle.
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鼈 is an older graph recorded for 鱉; character dictionaries also list it as a variant.
CJK Unified Ideograph-9F9C
Chinese 龜 names a hard-shelled turtle or tortoise; 鱉 names the soft-shelled turtle.
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In the older graph 鼈, 黽 is the component that marks the animal class.
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In the older graph 鼈, 敝 supplies the sound.
Combination ideas
2A person or thing trapped with no way out.
An idiom for a capture that is easy and certain.
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How to type or find 鱉
- Also called
- 鳖 · 鼈 · 甲魚
- Search it as
- 团鱼 · softshell · soft-shell · turtle
- Shows up in
- Anything that takes text · its shape is whatever your font draws
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HTML
鱉CSS
\9C49Codes and encoding1 code points
HTML decimal
鱉
HTML hex
鱉
CSS content
content: "\9C49";
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URL encoded
%E9%B1%89
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On screen
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UTF-8 bytes
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