What 鳘 means
鳘 is a sea-fish name, usually for 鮸. 鮸 is a coastal croaker; 鱼 marks the fish meaning, while 敏 hints at the reading. Some dictionaries also list 鰵 as a name for cod.
The early Chinese character dictionary 《说文解字》 records 鮸 around 100 CE. The 1008 rhyme dictionary 《广韵》, arranged by sound, glosses 鰵 as “sea fish.”
Is 鳘 the same as 鰵?
鳘 is simplified Chinese; 鰵 is its traditional counterpart. Some Chinese character-variant dictionaries also list 鰵 as a variant of 鮸.
Specialized Chinese seafood vocabulary.
Who writes 鳘
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1Why does 鳘 show as a box on some devices?
Because that device's fonts have no glyph for it. The character is still correct and still copies correctly — the box is a missing glyph, not a broken character.
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How to type or find 鳘
- Also called
- 鰵 · 鮸 · 鳘鱼
- Search it as
- 鳘肚 · mǐn · min · codfish
- Shows up in
- Anything that takes text · its shape is whatever your font draws
鳘\9CD8min in a Chinese Pinyin keyboard and select it; traditional Chinese input uses 鰵.Codes and encoding1 code points
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