鰕 (xiā): variant of 虾 (shrimp; prawn)

Meanings

1 variant of 虾 (shrimp; prawn)
2 giant salamander

Characters

鰕

xiā

variant of 虾 (shrimp; prawn)

Examples

海边的市场上有很多新鲜的虾。

Hǎibiān de shìchǎng shàng yǒu hěnduō xīnxiān de xiā.

The seaside market has lots of fresh shrimp.

Tips

history

An archaic, fish-radical form of 虾 'shrimp'. The modern simplified character 虾 uses the insect radical instead, reflecting how Chinese once classed shrimp with worms and small creatures. In old works 鰕 could also name the large salamander, called 大鲵 today.

Components

radical

鱼 yú

fish

The fish radical 鱼 on the left files this character as an aquatic creature. Old scribes treated shrimp and salamanders as water animals, so they wrote them with the fish radical; the modern shrimp character 虾 switched to the insect radical instead.

phonetic

叚 jiǎ

to borrow (phonetic)

The right side 叚 supplies the sound. The same phonetic appears in 虾 (the modern shrimp character) and 假 'false', whose readings drifted from a shared old pronunciation.

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