in English

mán
(bound form) eel (Anguilla japonica)

How it used to be written

These are the forms of 鰻, the traditional character: 鳗 is a twentieth-century simplification, found in no ancient corpus.

  • Small seal script: 鰻 Small seal script

Forms, sources and dates: the 字形演變 database of 小學堂, Academia Sinica, public domain (CC0).

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