Definitions

huàn carp

Etymology phono-semantic

fish

Semantic: Phonetic:

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The character (traditional form ) is a phono-semantic compound, combining the fish radical () with the phonetic to denote the grass carp, a widespread, economically significant freshwater fish in East Asian aquaculture.

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Seal Shuowen (~100 AD)
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