Left fish radical, the simplified form of 魚. Indexes 䲟 firmly in the fish family (鲸 whale, 鲨 shark, 鲤 carp). The remora is a slender suckerfish that attaches itself to sharks and turtles by a sucker-plate on top of its head - a fish-by-form, even if its lifestyle is parasitic hitching rather than swimming.
Right 印 supplies the sound yìn directly. Pulls double duty as semantic too: 印 means 'to press a seal,' and the remora's defining feature is the suction plate on its head that presses against the host fish as if stamping it. A rare phono-semantic where the phonetic also names what the creature does.
No stroke data for 䲟; the glyph shown is your device font, so component strokes can't be highlighted.
