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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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| | Pisces (star sign) | |
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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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| | shark fin | |
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| | putrid fish | |
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| | surimi | |
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| | harpoon | |
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| | salmon (loanword) | |
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| | koinobori, a Japanese carp-shaped windsock flown to celebrate Children's Day | |
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| | tapertail anchovy (Coilia ectenes) / various species of cutlassfish / saury | |
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| | like a fish back in water (idiom); glad to be back in one's proper surroundings | |
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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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| | 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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| | lit. fish sink, goose alights (idiom, from Zhuangzi 莊子｜庄子); fig. female beauty captivating even the birds and beasts | |
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| | octopus | |
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| | fish brings heat, meat brings phlegm, vegetables and tofu keep you healthy | |
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| | dishes with generous amounts of meat and fish / lavish meal | |
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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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| | to catch fish / (fig.) to loaf on the job; to be slack; to take it easy | |
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| | Japanese Spanish mackerel (Scomberomorus niphonius) / see 馬鮫魚｜马鲛鱼 | |
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| | to fish | |
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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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| | Pisces (constellation and sign of the zodiac) | |
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| | mermaid / dugong / sea cow / manatee / giant salamander | |
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| | grouper (Portuguese: garoupa) / also called 鮨 / Epinephelinae (subfamily of Serranidae, fish family including grouper) | |
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| | (Tw) tilapia | |
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| | Jiayu, a county in Xianning City 咸寧市｜咸宁市, Hubei | |
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| | gray mullet (Mugil cephalus) / snakehead fish (family Channidae) | |
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| | "fish" battle formation in ancient times: chariots in front, infantry behind / The Fish Enter the Trap (title of Ode 170 in the Shijing) | |
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| | lit. a fish that escaped the net (idiom) / fig. sb or sth that slips through the net | |
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| | to guard a tree-stump, waiting for rabbits, and climb a tree to catch fish (idiom); without any practical course of action | |
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| | Chinese high-fin banded shark (Myxocyprinus asiaticus) | |
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| | fishmonger | |
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| | lit. the salted fish turns over (idiom) / fig. to experience a reversal of fortune | |
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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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| | to fish in troubled water (idiom); to take advantage of a crisis for personal gain | |
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| | fishes | |
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| | trout | |
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| | mullet roe (salted and dried) / bottarga | |
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| | abalone | |
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| | anchovy | |
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| | crocodile tears | |
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| | ichthyosaur | |
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| | katsuobushi or dried bonito flakes (paper-thin shavings of preserved skipjack tuna) | |
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| | piranha (fish) | |
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| | grass carp | |
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| | Diaoyu Islands, located between Taiwan and Okinawa, controlled by Japan – which calls them the Senkaku Islands – but claimed by China | |
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| | sliced raw fish | |
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| | shark fin soup | |
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| | fish head / fig. upright and unwilling to compromise | |
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| | Cetus (constellation) | |
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| | (coll.) to fire sb / to sack sb | |
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| | piranha | |
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| | salmon / trout | |
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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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| | to file out; to walk out in a line | |
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| | to make a significant advance in one's career (idiom) / to get one's big break | |
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| | bony fishes / Osteichthyes (taxonomic class including most fish) | |
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| | takoyaki (octopus dumpling), a Japanese snack food | |
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| | "flying fish family", family who sacrifice everything to send their children abroad to study | |
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| | aquarium / fish tank | |
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| | fish and water (metaphor for an intimate relationship or inseparability) | |
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| | Japanese Spanish mackerel (Scomberomorus niphonius) | |
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| | yellow croaker (fish) / corvina | |
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| | Chinese giant salamander (Andrias davidianus) | |
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| | (loanword) basa (Pangasius bocourti) | |
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| | octopus | |
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| | the fish hold (of a fishing vessel) | |
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| | ribbonfish / hairtail / beltfish / cutlassfish (family Trichiuridae) | |
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| | fish bait | |
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| | bighead carp / Hypophthalmichthys nobilis | |
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| | fishpond | |
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| | to pass off fish eyes for pearls / to pass off fake products as genuine (idiom) | |
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| | lit. climb a tree to catch a fish (idiom); fig. to attempt the impossible | |
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| | butchering one another as fish and flesh (idiom); killing one another / internecine strife | |
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| | angler | |
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| | tropical fish | |
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| | softshell turtle | |
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| | pedophile (slang, referring to the case of a Hong Kong child abductor who lured girls with the prospect of seeing "goldfish" in his apartment) | |
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| | Diaoyu Islands, claimed by China but controlled by Japan as the Senkaku Islands, also called the Pinnacle Islands | |
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| | fish meal | |
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| | zebrafish | |
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| | silverfish (Lepisma saccarina) / fish moth | |
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| | surimi | |
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| | fish-belly white (used to describe the dingy light of the dawn sky) | |
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| | name used for many fishing birds / cormorant / osprey | |
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| | (martial arts, gymnastics) to kip up (spring upright from supine without hands) / (fig.) to jolt upright | |
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| | a fire in the city gates is also a calamity for the fish in the moat (idiom); the bystander will also suffer / fig. you can't escape responsibility for your actions / ask not for whom the bell tolls - it tolls for thee | |
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| | barracuda | |
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| | anglerfish | |
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| | shark sucker (Echeneis naucrates) | |
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| | fishing rod | |
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| | fishing float | |
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| | kingfisher | |
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| | fishhook | |
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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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