中

鰲

Unicode: U+9C32

Pinyin: áo

Variants:鳌鼇𩼡𪓴𪓶𪓾

Definition

* 传说中的海中大龟或大鳖。也作""

huge sea turtle

Structure

Related substructures

Precursors

Liushutong Seal Forms
Pre-Qin to Han seal-type forms (≤220 CE) / compiled 1661 (Min Qiji); collated and printed 1720 (Bi Hongshu)
A ten-volume compendium of seal-script variants arranged by the rhymes of Hongwu Zhengyun: each head character gives its Shuowen small seal form, then variants gathered from guwen, zhouwen, bronze inscriptions and Qin–Han seals. Long a standard reference for seal carvers, but the forms are compiled rather than excavated and were collected with little vetting, so many are of doubtful authenticity.Wikimedia Commons ->
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