鳗
Tap the pinyin to hear it
(bound form) eel (Anguilla japonica)
- Strokes
- 19
- Radical
- 魚 +11
- Structure
- Left–right 左右
- Traditional
- 鰻
- Common rank
- #3,114
- Unicode
- U+9CD7
Sound it out + =
Formation & memory
Break the character into parts you already know.
Words with 鳗
The most common words first — learning a character in context makes it stick.
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 八目鳗 | lamprey (jawless proto-fish of family Petromyzontidae) | |
| 电鳗 | electric eel | |
| 黑鳗 | short-finned eel (Anguilla australis) | |
| 鳗鱼 | eel | |
| 盲鳗 | hagfish (jawless proto-fish of class Myxini) | |
| 芦鳗 | variant of 鱸鰻|鲈鳗[lu2 man2], giant mottled eel (Anguilla marmorata) | |
| 七鳃鳗 | lamprey (jawless proto-fish of family Petromyzontidae) | |
| 澳洲鳗鲡 | short-finned eel (Anguilla australis) | |
| 鲈鳗 | (Tw) giant mottled eel (Anguilla marmorata), aka swamp eel or marbled eel; (coll.) (altern… | |
| 鳗鲡 | eel; Japanese freshwater eel (Anguilla japonica) |
Sound family
Characters sharing the sound component 曼 — compare how they read.
| Character | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 曼 sound part | long, extended, vast; beautiful | |
| 慢 | slowly, leisurely; sluggish | |
| 漫 | inundating; exaggerated | |
| 幔 | curtain, screen, tent | |
| 馒 | steamed buns; steamed dumplings | |
| 嫚 | to scorn, to despise; to be rude to, to affront | |
| 谩 | to slight, to insult; to deceive | |
| 熳 | to spread | |
| 缦 | plain silk; simple, plain | |
| 墁 | to plaster; to pave | |
| 镘 | trowel |