| | 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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| | to cover / to encase / cover / sheath / to overlap / to interleave / to model after / to copy / formula / harness / loop of rope / (fig.) to fish for / to obtain slyly / classifier for sets, collections / bend (of a river or mountain range, in place names) / tau (Greek letter Ττ) | HSK 2 |
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| | loose / to loosen / to relax / floss (dry, fluffy food product made from shredded, seasoned meat or fish, used as a topping or filling) | HSK 4 |
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| | fish / old variant of 鮮｜鲜 | HSK 4 |
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| | aquatic products (including fish, crabs, seaweed etc) | HSK 5 |
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| | to fish out (from pocket) / to scoop | HSK 6 |
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| | to cover; to spread over / a cover; a shade; a hood / bamboo fish trap / bamboo chicken coop / (Tw) (coll.) to protect; to have sb's back / (Tw) (coll.) awesome; incredible / (Tw) (coll.) (often as 罩得住) to have things under control; to be able to handle it | HSK 7-9 |
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| | to fish up / to dredge up | HSK 7-9 |
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| | to fish (with line and hook); to angle / (fig.) to entrap / (Tw) to repeatedly nod one's head while dozing | HSK 7-9 |
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| | to angle for fame (idiom) / to fish for compliments | HSK 7-9 |
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| | to salvage / to dredge / to fish out (person or object from the sea) | HSK 7-9 |
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| | 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 | |
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| | sliced raw fish | |
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| | fishes | |
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| | to pour heated oil and seasonings over food (e.g. a cooked fish) | |
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| | (milk) to turn sour / (meat, fish) to go off | |
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| | lit. would rather be a chicken's head than a phoenix's tail (idiom) / fig. to prefer to be a big fish in a small pond rather than a small fish in a big pond | |
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| | a kind of striped fish | |
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| | close relationship as between fish and water | |
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| | to raise (livestock or poultry) in an open environment / to breed (fish, bees, silkworms etc) in a suitable environment; to culture (kelp etc) / to release (a captive animal) into the wild | |
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| | fish of family Sisoridae (Asiatic catfishes) | |
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| | fish meal | |
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| | to fish with a hook and line; to angle | |
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| | fish bait | |
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| | like a fish back in water (idiom); glad to be back in one's proper surroundings | |
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| | ancient practice of offering sacrifices to the gods in the 12th lunar month / the 12th lunar month / (bound form) (of meat, fish etc) cured in winter, esp. in the 12th lunar month | |
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| | oriental whitebait / slender silvery-white fish e.g. Galaxias maculatus and Salangichthys microdon | |
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| | dried swim bladder; fish maw | |
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| | tail / remainder / remnant / extremity / sixth of the 28 constellations / classifier for fish | |
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| | yellow croaker (fish) / corvina | |
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| | to catch fish; to fish | |
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| | fisherman / to fish | |
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| | scales (of fish, snakes etc) | |
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| | lit. a fish in a dried-out rut (idiom) / fig. a person in dire straits | |
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| | mudskipper (amphibious fish) | |
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| | flesh of fish / fish and meat / (fig.) victims of oppression / (fig.) to cruelly oppress (i.e. to treat like flesh to be carved up) | |
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| | fish bone | |
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| | salted fish | |
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| | to have a clear view (of a situation) / to fish for information / fact-finding | |
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| | aquarium / fish tank | |
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| | lit. to fish a needle from the sea / to find a needle in a haystack (idiom) | |
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| | fish sauce | |
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| | to fish out / to take out (from a pocket, bag etc) | |
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| | fish head / fig. upright and unwilling to compromise | |
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| | fish tank / fishbowl / aquarium | |
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| | neither fish nor fowl / resembling nothing on earth | |
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| | Xenocyprioides, genus of cyprinid fish endemic to China | |
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| | scale (of fish, reptiles etc) | |
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| | freshwater fish | |
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| | fish catch | |
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| | bamboo fish trap | |
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| | downtown area / commercial district / (chiefly Cantonese) wet market, i.e. a marketplace selling fresh meat, fish and vegetables etc | |
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| | fresh fish / living fish | |
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| | tropical fish | |
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| | lit. shallow waters cannot harbor big fish (idiom) / fig. ambitious, talented people cannot reach their full potential in a small organization | |
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| | yellow croaker (fish) | |
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| | deep-fried fish cake popular in Taiwan (loanword from Japanese "tempura") | |
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| | (of a bird, fish etc) to be caught in a net / (of a tennis ball) to hit the net / (of a criminal) to be captured | |
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| | to catch fish / (fig.) to loaf on the job; to be slack; to take it easy | |
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| | flying fish | |
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| | Cherskii's thicklip gudgeon (Sarcocheilichthys czerskii), a species of cyprinid fish endemic to the Amur River basin | |
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| | grouper (Portuguese: garoupa) / also called 鮨 / Epinephelinae (subfamily of Serranidae, fish family including grouper) | |
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| | the movement of a fish's mouth at the surface of the water | |
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| | to fish for (aquatic animals and plants) / to catch | |
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| | oden, Japanese dish made with boiled eggs, processed fish cakes, daikon radish, tofu etc in a kelp-based broth | |
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| | gills of fish | |
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| | shoal of fish | |
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| | lit. to be buried in the bellies of fish (idiom) / fig. to drown | |
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| | lit. fish and dragons mixed in together (idiom); fig. crooks mixed in with the honest folk | |
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| | creel / fish basket | |
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| | to pass off fish eyes for pearls / to pass off fake products as genuine (idiom) | |
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| | lit. the voice of the guest overwhelms that of the host (idiom) / fig. a minor player upstages the main attraction / minor details obscure the main point / the sauce is better than the fish | |
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| | fish-belly white (used to describe the dingy light of the dawn sky) | |
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| | (literary) (of a fish) to stick its mouth out of the water | |
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| | chameleon plant; fish mint (Houttuynia cordata) | |
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| | fish-like person in Chinese folklore whose tears turn into pearls | |
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| | to dredge up; to scoop up from the water / to fish for; to gain (by improper means) | |
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| | (Tw) fishpond / fish farm | |
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| | sweet and sour fish | |
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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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| | lit. to drain the pond to get at the fish (idiom) / fig. to kill the goose that lays the golden eggs | |
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| | (lit.) land of fish and rice / (fig.) fertile region / land of milk and honey | |
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| | Barramundi / Lates calcarifer (a species of catadromous fish in family Latidae of order Perciformes) | |
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| | fish fillet / slice of fish meat | |
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| | mandarin fish / Chinese perch (Siniperca chuatsi) | |
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| | fry / newly hatched fish | |
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| | swim bladder (of a fish) | |
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| | (angling) to play a fish / (kite-flying) to let the string out / (dating) to play the field | |
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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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| | fish steak | |
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| | to fish | |
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| | plain boiled pork / white meat (fish, poultry etc) | |
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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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| | 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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| | lit. as if having a fish bone stuck in one's throat (idiom) / fig. very upset and needing to express one's displeasure | |
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| | fish eggs / roe / caviar | |
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| | ray (fish) / Taiwan pr. [hong1] | |
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| | any ray (fish) variety of Myliobatiformes order | |
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| | fish ball | |
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