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鳃

sāi

fish gills

🔤 Pictophonetic: 鱼 (fish) provides meaning, 思 provides pronunciation

HSK 17 strokes Uncommon (38%)

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Component Breakdown

Each color represents a different component

to think, to ponder, to consider; final particle

⿰鱼思 i

Stroke Order

Component Tree i

yú

鱼

fish

📷 Pictographic: A fish swimming upwards

8 strokes HSK 2

⿱⺈田

Radical component

yī

一

one; a, an; alone

💡 Ideographic: Represents heaven (天), earth (旦), or the number 1

1 strokes HSK 1

sī

思

to think, to ponder, to consider; final particle

💡 Ideographic: Weighing something with your mind 囟 (altered) and heart 心

9 strokes HSK 2

tián

田

field, farm, arable land; cultivated

📷 Pictographic: The plots of a rice paddy

5 strokes HSK 6

jiōng

冂

wide

2 strokes

tǔ

土

soil, earth; items made of earth

📷 Pictographic: A lump of clay on a potter's wheel

3 strokes HSK 5

shí

十

ten, tenth; complete; perfect

2 strokes HSK 1

yī

一

one; a, an; alone

💡 Ideographic: Represents heaven (天), earth (旦), or the number 1

1 strokes HSK 1

xīn

心

heart; mind; soul

📷 Pictographic: A heart

4 strokes HSK 3

Words Using 鳃 (6)

Character

Pinyin

Definition

HSK

lamprey (jawless proto-fish of family Petromyzontidae)

qīsāimán

七鳃鳗 ↗

lamprey (jawless proto-fish of family Petromyzontidae)

鳃弓 ↗

sāigōng

visceral arch (gill-bearing arch or its vestigial crease on sides of neck of vertebrates)

sāigōng

鳃弓 ↗

visceral arch (gill-bearing arch or its vestigial crease on sides of neck of vertebrates)

Lamellibranchia / class of bivalves

bànsāigāng

瓣鳃纲 ↗

Lamellibranchia / class of bivalves