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  *魚* | 魚* | *魚
fish (CL:條|条,) / 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
to fish (with line and hook); to angle / (fig.) to entrap / (Tw) to repeatedly nod one's head while dozing
HSK 7-9
shark
HSK 7-9
alligator; crocodile (CL:條|条)
HSK 7-9
octopus
lit. the fish and the bear's paw, you can't have both at the same time (idiom, from Mencius); fig. you must choose one or the other / you can't always get everything you want / you can't have your cake and eat it
squid
porgy (Pagrosomus major)
sliced raw fish
fishes
fingerling
Pisces (constellation and sign of the zodiac)
lit. croaker car / flatbed tricycle / delivery tricycle
Yuchi or Yuchih Township in Nantou County 南投縣|南投县, central Taiwan
fishpond
fisher / fisherman
close relationship as between fish and water
fish meal
cuttlefish
fish bait
charactercopystroke orderAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *魚* | 魚* | *魚
surname Yu
like a fish back in water (idiom); glad to be back in one's proper surroundings
shark sucker (Echeneis naucrates)
oriental whitebait / slender silvery-white fish e.g. Galaxias maculatus and Salangichthys microdon
Diaoyu Islands, located between Taiwan and Okinawa, controlled by Japan – which calls them the Senkaku Islands – but claimed by China
naked carp / Gymnocypris przewalskii
to walk in in a line
flatfish / flounder
yellow croaker (fish) / corvina
to catch fish; to fish
smelt (family Osmeridae)
cod
(Tw) tilapia
Chinese high-fin banded shark (Myxocyprinus asiaticus)
(law) entrapment
abalone
eel
salmon / trout
mudskipper (amphibious fish)
shark sucker (Echeneis naucrates)
flesh of fish / fish and meat / (fig.) victims of oppression / (fig.) to cruelly oppress (i.e. to treat like flesh to be carved up)
salted fish
caviar
tapertail anchovy (Coilia ectenes) / various species of cutlassfish / saury
Pisces (star sign)
fish sauce
ribbonfish / hairtail / beltfish / cutlassfish (family Trichiuridae)
fish head / fig. upright and unwilling to compromise
mermaid
fish tank / fishbowl / aquarium
milkfish (Chanos chanos)
whale / CL: 條|条
(Tw) tuna
porgy; sea bream (family Sparidae) / (Tw) tilapia
goldfish
torpedo
Yuchi or Yuchih Township in Nantou County 南投縣|南投县, central Taiwan
the pleasure of close intimacy in a couple (idiom) / sexual intercourse
bubbles (literary)
freshwater fish
bass / perch
fresh fish / living fish
fishing line
mermaid / dugong / sea cow / manatee / giant salamander
lit. shallow waters cannot harbor big fish (idiom) / fig. ambitious, talented people cannot reach their full potential in a small organization
cod liver oil
tropical fish
yellow croaker (fish)
herring
to catch fish / (fig.) to loaf on the job; to be slack; to take it easy
Exocet (missile)
flying fish
fishtail
Yutai County in Jining 濟寧|济宁, Shandong
grouper (Portuguese: garoupa) / also called / Epinephelinae (subfamily of Serranidae, fish family including grouper)
piranha
softshell turtle
erhua variant of 魚鉤|鱼钩
crucian carp
(coll.) to fire sb / to sack sb
fishing rod
shoal of fish
lit. to be buried in the bellies of fish (idiom) / fig. to drown
Japanese Spanish mackerel (Scomberomorus niphonius) / see 馬鮫魚|马鲛鱼
lit. fish and dragons mixed in together (idiom); fig. crooks mixed in with the honest folk
clownfish / anemonefish
tuna
to pass off fish eyes for pearls / to pass off fake products as genuine (idiom)
silvery pomfret / butterfish
fish-belly white (used to describe the dingy light of the dawn sky)
chameleon plant; fish mint (Houttuynia cordata)
ichthyosaur
trout
fishing float
to file out; to walk out in a line
wrinkles of the skin / crow's feet
white Amur bream (Parabramis pekinensis)
barracuda
(Tw) fishpond / fish farm
sweet and sour fish

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