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charactercopystroke orderAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *鱼* | 鱼* | *鱼
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
alligator; crocodile (CL:條|条)
HSK 7-9
shark
HSK 7-9
king salmon / Chinook salmon
turbot / European imported turbot / same as 大菱鮃|大菱鲆
to fish in troubled water (idiom); to take advantage of a crisis for personal gain
flatfish / flounder
Japanese Spanish mackerel (Scomberomorus niphonius)
salted fish
abalone
mermaid / dugong / sea cow / manatee / giant salamander
charactercopystroke orderAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *鱼* | 鱼* | *鱼
surname Yu
sturgeon
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
octopus
goldfish
white Amur bream (Parabramis pekinensis)
mermaid
(coll.) to fire sb / to sack sb
whale / CL: 條|条
crucian carp
mokugyo / wooden fish (percussion instrument)
softshell turtle
catfish
bass / perch
mackerel
Pisces (star sign)
yellow croaker (fish)
deep-fried fish
to catch fish; to fish
to fish
mandarin fish / Chinese perch (Siniperca chuatsi)
trout
cuttlefish
tapertail anchovy (Coilia ectenes) / various species of cutlassfish / saury
Jiayu county in Xianning 咸寧|咸宁, Hubei
carp
tuna
black carp (Mylopharyngodon piceus) / herring / mackerel
salmon / trout
squid
eel
Chinese giant salamander (Andrias davidianus)
oriental whitebait / slender silvery-white fish e.g. Galaxias maculatus and Salangichthys microdon
barracuda
silvery pomfret / butterfish
grass carp
silver carp
sardine (loanword)
lit. a fish that escaped the net (idiom) / fig. sb or sth that slips through the net
cod
bighead carp / Hypophthalmichthys nobilis
lit. climb a tree to catch a fish (idiom); fig. to attempt the impossible
swordfish
gray mullet (Mugil cephalus) / snakehead fish (family Channidae)
ocean sunfish (Mola mola)
Exocet (missile)
flying fish
softshell turtle
Reeves shad (Tenualosa reevesii)
yellow croaker (fish) / corvina
herring
lancelet (Branchiostoma lanceolatum), a primitive fish
(Tw) tuna
barracuda
Hong Kong catfish (Clarias fuscus)
anchovy
a fish at the bottom of the pot (idiom) / in a desperate situation
mudskipper (amphibious fish)
soft-shelled turtle / also termed 鱉|鳖
chum salmon
saury fish (family Scomberesocidae)
porgy; sea bream (family Sparidae) / (Tw) tilapia
to guard a tree-stump, waiting for rabbits, and climb a tree to catch fish (idiom); without any practical course of action
octopus
flounder / plaice
Sichuan poached sliced fish in hot chili oil
Spanish mackerel
blotched snakehead (Channa maculata)
flathead grey mullet (Mugil cephalus)
piranha
Chinese herring (Ilisha elongata)
putrid fish
Japanese Spanish mackerel (Scomberomorus niphonius) / see 馬鮫魚|马鲛鱼
(archaic) shark
salmon (loanword)
tropical fish
anchovy
Pacific saury (Cololabis saira)
whitefish
clownfish / anemonefish
largehead hairtail / beltfish / Trichiurus lepturus
ribbonfish / hairtail / beltfish / cutlassfish (family Trichiuridae)
barbel (fish)

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