鰻

See also 鳗

Translingual

simpl.		鳗
trad.		鰻

Etymology

Phono-semantic compound (形聲): semantic 魚 (“fish”) + phonetic 曼 – a kind of fish. Note that 曼 has meaning of “long”, hence connotations of “a long fish, an eel”.

Han character

鰻 (radical 195 魚+11, 22 strokes, cangjie input 弓火日田水 (NFAWE), four-corner 2634₇)

1. eel

Descendants

• 鳗

References

• KangXi: page 1477, character 7
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 46443
• Dae Jaweon: page 2008, character 34
• Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 7, page 4710, character 8
• Unihan data for U+9C3B

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Cantonese

Hanzi

鰻 (simplified 鳗, Yale maan4)

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Japanese

Kanji

鰻

Etymology

海 (う, u: “sea”) + (?)

1. eel

Readings

• On: ばん (ban), まん (man)
• Kun: うなぎ (unagi)

Noun

鰻 (hiragana うなぎ, katakana ウナギ, romaji unagi)

1. ウナギ: eel

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Korean

Hanja

鰻 (hangeul 만, revised man, McCune-Reischauer man, Yale man)

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Mandarin

Hanzi

鰻 (simplified 鳗, pinyin jí (ji2), mán (man2), Wade-Giles chi², man²)