鯉

Glyph origin
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Etymology
considers connection to 🇨🇬 to be unlikely.

compares it to, suggesting that it may be an early loan from Chinese; compare 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬.

See the entry for the figurative senses.

Definitions

 * 1) carp, especially the common carp
 * 2)  letter; correspondence
 * 3)  messenger

Etymology
→ →  → * →

From, attested in the .

Noun

 * 1) carp, specifically, the common carp