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  *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
shark
HSK 7-9
alligator; crocodile (CL:條|条)
HSK 7-9
charactercopyAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *鱼* | 鱼* | *鱼
surname Yu
salted fish
squid
carp
fishes
octopus
goldfish
white Amur bream (Parabramis pekinensis)
chum salmon
mermaid / dugong / sea cow / manatee / giant salamander
mermaid
fish tank / fishbowl / aquarium
abalone
whale / CL: 條|条
fishpond
crucian carp
mokugyo / wooden fish (percussion instrument)
softshell turtle
fish fillet / slice of fish meat
fish bone
fish eggs / roe / caviar
fish head / fig. upright and unwilling to compromise
catfish
bass / perch
eel
fry / newly hatched fish
fish bait
cuttlefish
ocean sunfish (Mola mola)
mackerel
Pisces (star sign)
yellow croaker (fish)
deep-fried fish
Bayuquan District of Yingkou City 營口市|营口市, Liaoning
tilapia
Diaoyu Islands, located between Taiwan and Okinawa, controlled by Japan – which calls them the Senkaku Islands – but claimed by China
fish and water (metaphor for an intimate relationship or inseparability)
fishing rod
to catch fish; to fish
fishhook
Diaoyu Islands, claimed by China but controlled by Japan as the Senkaku Islands, also called the Pinnacle Islands
to fish
torpedo
Japanese Spanish mackerel (Scomberomorus niphonius)
Yuchi or Yuchih Township in Nantou County 南投縣|南投县, central Taiwan
fishpond
like a fish back in water (idiom); glad to be back in one's proper surroundings
cod
mandarin fish / Chinese perch (Siniperca chuatsi)
Yufeng district of Liuzhou city 柳州市, Guangxi
trout
tapertail anchovy (Coilia ectenes) / various species of cutlassfish / saury
Jiayu county in Xianning 咸寧|咸宁, Hubei
lit. fish and dragons mixed in together (idiom); fig. crooks mixed in with the honest folk
sturgeon
Yutai County in Jining 濟寧|济宁, Shandong
dishes with generous amounts of meat and fish / lavish meal
ichthyosaur
black carp (Mylopharyngodon piceus) / herring / mackerel
salmon / trout
fin
tuna
shark fin
flesh of fish / fish and meat / (fig.) victims of oppression / (fig.) to cruelly oppress (i.e. to treat like flesh to be carved up)
chameleon plant; fish mint (Houttuynia cordata)
harpoon
eel
Chinese giant salamander (Andrias davidianus)
oriental whitebait / slender silvery-white fish e.g. Galaxias maculatus and Salangichthys microdon
barracuda
yellow croaker (fish) / corvina
to fish in troubled water (idiom); to take advantage of a crisis for personal gain
name used for many fishing birds / cormorant / osprey
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
silvery pomfret / butterfish
grass carp
(lit.) land of fish and rice / (fig.) fertile region / land of milk and honey
fish meal
fish scales
fishbone
fishing float
shoal of fish
silver carp
fishtail
sardine (loanword)
lit. a fish that escaped the net (idiom) / fig. sb or sth that slips through the net
lit. fish sink, goose alights (idiom, from Zhuangzi 莊子|庄子); fig. female beauty captivating even the birds and beasts
close relationship as between fish and water
fish ball
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
swim bladder
bighead carp / Hypophthalmichthys nobilis
lit. either the fish dies or the net splits / a life and death struggle (idiom)
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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