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鲛

鮫
jiāo
noun #46,158

Meanings

  1. 1 a shark (literary / classical name)

Examples

古书说鲛人的眼泪会变成珍珠。
Gǔshū shuō jiāorén de yǎnlèi huì biànchéng zhēnzhū.
Old books say mermaids could weave silk that turned to pearls when they wept.
这种鲛生活在深海里。
Zhèzhǒng jiāo shēnghuó zài shēnhǎi lǐ.
This kind of shark lives deep in the ocean.

Tips

culture
鲛 is the old literary word for 'shark'; the everyday word is 鲨鱼. It is famous through 鲛人, the Chinese 'mermaid' whose tears were said to become pearls.

Components

radical
鱼 yú
fish
鱼 is the fish radical, here in left-side form. It marks 鲛 as a kind of fish, the shark.
phonetic
交 jiāo
to cross; to exchange
交 supplies the exact sound jiāo. Its meaning 'to cross' is unrelated; it works only as the phonetic beside the fish radical.

Stroke Order

鲛 jiāo