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鰥
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鳏
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huge fish

HSK 10
Nature →Animals →Fish
guān
カン、コン
やもめ、やもお
환
Components
Traditional (鰥)
魚 fish+ 眔 reach to =
鰥 huge fish
魚 Meaning component
fish
fish
眔 Phonetic component
dà reach to
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Simplified (鳏)
鱼 Yu (surname)+ 眔 reach to =
鳏 huge fish
鱼 Meaning component
yú Yu (surname)
fish
fish
眔 Phonetic component
dà reach to
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Notes
Similar Characters
魠 rare魷 cuttlefish (alt) (trad)鮃 Flatfish A Flatfish (trad)鮑 abalone (trad)鮨 seasoned鮪 kind of sturgeon (trad)鮫 shark (trad)鮭 spheroides (trad)鮮 fresh (trad/jp)鯇 grass (trad)鯉 carp (trad)鯊 shark (alt) (trad)鯔 mullet (trad)鯕 coryphaena hippurus (trad)鯖 mackerel (iii) (trad)鯗 dried fish (alt) (trad)鯛 pagrosomus major (trad)鯡 herring (iii) (trad)鯢 cryptobranchus (trad)鯤 spawn (trad)
Historical Evolution
Bronze Early Western Zhou (~1000 BC)
Bronze
Early Western Zhou (~1000 BC)
Seal Shuowen (~100 AD)
Seal
Shuowen (~100 AD)
Clerical Eastern Han dynasty (25-220 AD)
Clerical
Eastern Han dynasty (25-220 AD)
Clerical Eastern Han dynasty (25-220 AD)
Clerical
Eastern Han dynasty (25-220 AD)
鰥
Regular
Modern
Chinese
鳏 / 鰥 [guān]
widower
Japanese
鰥 、 鰥夫 やもめ 同音
noun usually kana widower; divorced man not remarried
寡男 、 鰥夫 、 鰥 やもお 同音
noun widower
Example Sentences
CHINESE WORDS (3)
鳏夫 [guān​fū] #18,406
former husband
鳏寡孤独 [guān​guǎ​gū​dú] #55,804
lit. widowers, widows, orphans and the childless
鳏居 [guān​jū]
to live as a widower
JAPANESE WORDS (7)
男やもめ [おとこやもめ] #82,487
widower
やもめ暮らし [やもめぐらし] #144,111
widowhood
鰥 [やもめ] #158,970
widower
寡男 [やもお] #167,992
widower
鰥寡孤独 [かんかこどく] #217,169
with no one upon whom to depend
鰥寡 [かんか] #221,894
widow and widower
男やもめに蛆がわく [おとこやもめにうじがわく]
widowers are untidy