羽鳃鲐羽鰓鮐 in English

Character breakdown

• 羽 yǔ feather
• 鳃鰓 sāi gills of fish
• 鲐鮐 tái mackerel

How it used to be written

羽

• Oracle bone script 商
• Clerical script 東漢
• See all 15 forms

鲐

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

• Small seal script

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