| | Croceine croaker (Pseudosciaena crocea), a fish popular in Cantonese cooking | |
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| | fish brings heat, meat brings phlegm, vegetables and tofu keep you healthy | |
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| | lit. croaker car / flatbed tricycle / delivery tricycle | |
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| | fish-belly white (used to describe the dingy light of the dawn sky) | |
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| | naked carp / Gymnocypris przewalskii | |
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| | kingfisher | |
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| | salmon / trout | |
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| | bighead carp / Hypophthalmichthys nobilis | |
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| | salmon (loanword) | |
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| | cuttlefish | |
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| | turbot / European imported turbot / same as 大菱鮃｜大菱鲆 | |
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| | halibut | |
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| | octopus | |
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| | coelacanth | |
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| | name used for many fishing birds / cormorant / osprey | |
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| | lit. to be the meat on sb's chopping block (idiom) / fig. to be at sb's mercy | |
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| | water flea (small crustacean of genus Daphnia) | |
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| | grouper (Portuguese: garoupa) / also called 鮨 / Epinephelinae (subfamily of Serranidae, fish family including grouper) | |
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| | katsuobushi or dried bonito flakes (paper-thin shavings of preserved skipjack tuna) | |
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| | like a fish back in water (idiom); glad to be back in one's proper surroundings | |
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| | Hong Kong catfish (Clarias fuscus) | |
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| | gray mullet (Mugil cephalus) / snakehead fish (family Channidae) | |
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| | to catch fish; to fish | |
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| | soft-shelled turtle / also termed 鱉｜鳖 | |
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| | Jiang Ziya is fishing, if you want it, take the hook (idiom, refers to early sage 姜子牙 fishing with no bait and the hook above the water); to put one's head in the noose | |
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| | (lit.) land of fish and rice / (fig.) fertile region / land of milk and honey | |
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| | tilapia | |
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| | lit. either the fish dies or the net gets torn (idiom) / fig. it's a life-and-death struggle / it's either him or me | |
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| | fish and water (metaphor for an intimate relationship or inseparability) | |
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| | use a long line to catch a big fish (idiom); a long-term plan for major returns | |
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| | to fish in troubled water (idiom); to take advantage of a crisis for personal gain / also written 渾水摸魚｜浑水摸鱼 | |
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| | fishes | |
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| | lit. to fish for three days and sun-dry the nets for two days (proverb) / fig. not to persevere in doing sth / to do sth by fits and starts | |
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| | give a man a fish and you feed him for a day; teach a man to fish and you feed him for a lifetime / knowledge is the best charity | |
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| | sweet and sour fish | |
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| | ribbonfish / hairtail / beltfish / cutlassfish (family Trichiuridae) | |
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| | give a man a fish and you feed him for a day; teach a man to fish and you feed him for a lifetime (idiom) | |
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| | crucian carp | |
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| | (loanword) basa (Pangasius bocourti) | |
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| | fishing rod | |
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| | (Tw) Spanish mackerel | |
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| | sliced raw fish | |
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| | Dorado (constellation) | |
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| | Indo-Pacific wrasse (Gomphosus varius) | |
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| | mandarin fish | |
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| | pork strips stir-fried with yuxiang 魚香｜鱼香 | |
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| | octopus | |
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| | to fish | |
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| | (Tw) tuna | |
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| | lit. fish and dragons mixed in together (idiom); fig. crooks mixed in with the honest folk | |
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| | dace | |
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| | goldfish | |
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| | oriental whitebait / slender silvery-white fish e.g. Galaxias maculatus and Salangichthys microdon | |
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| | piranha | |
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| | lit. either the fish dies or the net splits / a life and death struggle (idiom) | |
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| | Cetus (constellation) | |
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| | Chinese herring (Ilisha elongata) | |
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| | shark fin soup | |
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| | barbel (fish) | |
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| | barracuda | |
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| | flatfish / flounder | |
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| | softshell turtle | |
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| | lit. climb a tree to catch a fish (idiom); fig. to attempt the impossible | |
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| | ocean sunfish (Mola mola) | |
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| | fishpond | |
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| | fishmonger | |
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| | ichthyosaur | |
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| | skate (cartilaginous fish belonging to the family Rajidae) / stingray | |
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| | squid | |
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| | herring | |
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| | alligator; crocodile (CL: 條｜条) | HSK 7-9 |
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| | salted fish | |
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| | yellow croaker (fish) / corvina | |
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| | tuna | |
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| | abalone | |
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| | Chinese herring (Ilisha elongata) / white herring / slender shad | |
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| | better to go home and weave a net than to stand by the pond longing for fish (idiom) / one should take practical steps to achieve one's aim | |
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| | grass carp | |
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| | Reeves shad (Tenualosa reevesii) | |
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| | giant oarfish (Regalecus glesne) | |
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| | takoyaki (octopus dumpling), a Japanese snack food | |
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| | surname Yu | |
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| | fish (CL: 條｜条, 尾) / used in the names of various aquatic animals that are not fish (including abalone 鮑魚｜鲍鱼, alligators and crocodiles 鱷魚｜鳄鱼 and octopi 章魚｜章鱼) | HSK 2 |
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| | torpedo | |
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| | to fish in troubled water (idiom); to take advantage of a crisis for personal gain | |
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| | stir-fried yellow fish filet | |
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| | mermaid | |
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| | "flying fish family", family who sacrifice everything to send their children abroad to study | |
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| | to pass off fish eyes for pearls / to pass off fake products as genuine (idiom) | |
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| | shoal of fish | |
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| | shark | HSK 7-9 |
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| | (Tw) tilapia | |
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| | zebrafish | |
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| | (bird species of China) pied kingfisher (Ceryle rudis) | |
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| | mokugyo / wooden fish (percussion instrument) | |
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