鱼
fish (CL:條|条[tiao2],尾[wei3]); used in the names of various aquatic animals that are not fish (including abalone 鮑魚|鲍鱼[bao4 yu2], alligators and crocodiles 鱷魚|鳄鱼[e4 yu2] and octopi 章魚|章鱼[zhang1 yu2])
8 strokes
Dict coverage rank #158 U+9C7C
How 鱼 is formed
Pictograph (象形字)
A fish swimming upwards
How to remember it
fish · Heisig RSH #154
bound up + 田 rice field + floor
Keyword method from Heisig's Remembering Simplified Hanzi.
Characters built with 鱼 as their sound component
These characters all use 鱼 (yú) as their phonetic component — compare how they read:
| Character | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 鱼 sound component | yú | fish |
| 稣 | sū | to revive; to rise again |
| 蓟 | jì | cirsium, thistle; surname |
| 鲰 | zōu | small fish; small; minnow |
Words containing 鱼
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 海水鱼 | hǎi shuǐ yú | saltwater fish |
| 鱼子 | yú zǐ | fish eggs; roe |
| 人鱼 | rén yú | mermaid; dugong; sea cow; manatee; giant salamander |
| 鱼水 | yú shuǐ | fish and water (metaphor for an intimate relationship or inseparability) |
| 鱼头 | yú tóu | fish head; fig. upright and unwilling to compromise |
| 鱼生 | yú shēng | sliced raw fish |
| 三文鱼 | sān wén yú | salmon (loanword) |
| 大黄鱼 | dà huáng yú | Croceine croaker (Pseudosciaena crocea), a fish popular in Cantonese cooking |
| 水清无鱼 | shuǐ qīng wú yú | lit. water that is too clean holds no fish (idiom); fig. one who is too severe has no frie… |
| 海鱼 | hǎi yú | saltwater fish |
| 白鱼 | bái yú | whitefish |
| 鱼台县 | Yú tái Xiàn | Yutai, a county in Jining City 濟寧市|济宁市[Ji3 ning2 Shi4], Shandong |
| 金鱼 | jīn yú | goldfish |
| 鱼花 | yú huā | fry; newly hatched fish |
| 美人鱼 | měi rén yú | mermaid |
| 黄花鱼 | huáng huā yú | yellow croaker (fish); corvina |
| 鱼水情 | yú shuǐ qíng | close relationship as between fish and water |
| 黄鱼车 | huáng yú chē | lit. croaker car; flatbed tricycle; delivery tricycle |
| 木鱼花 | mù yú huā | see 柴魚片|柴鱼片[chai2 yu2 pian4] |
| 大鱼大肉 | dà yú dà ròu | dishes with generous amounts of meat and fish; lavish meal |