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Kanji Detail for 魚 - "fish, to fish"

魚

  • Meaning

    魚 means "fish, to fish."

    1. Fish - Animals living in water with scales and fins.

    2. To fish - To catch fish.

  • Words using 魚

    • 魚介類 ぎょかいるい Listen marine products; seafood; fish and shellfish
    • 金魚 きんぎょ Listen goldfish (Carassius auratus)
    • 稚魚 ちぎょ Listen fry; juvenile fish; fingerling
    • 魚類 ぎょるい Listen fish; fishes
    • 熱帯魚 ねったいぎょ Listen tropical fish
    • 鮮魚 せんぎょ Listen fresh fish

  • Four-character idioms with 魚

    • 沈魚落雁 ちんぎょらくがん Listen charms of a uniquely beautiful woman
    • 烏焉魯魚 うえんろぎょ Listen miswriting a word; using the wrong kanji to write a word
    • 魚目燕石 ぎょもくえんせき Listen imitation that looks identical to the original; fake causing the original to lose value
    • 魯魚亥豕 ろぎょがいし Listen miswriting a word; using the wrong kanji to write a word
    • 魯魚章草 ろぎょしょうそう Listen miswriting a word; using the wrong kanji to write a word
    • 鳶飛魚躍 えんぴぎょやく Listen all of creation following their original natures, living and enjoying themselves freely; Heaven's will that all of creation shall follow their original natures and live freely; as a ruler's benevolence spreads, the people will find their places in the land based on their abilities

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    • Verified meaning: fish, to fish
    • Official Jōyō kanji — a standard character every Japanese reader recognises
    • Used in real Japanese given names (read うお, うおさき, うおざき, うをざき)

    A single kanji rarely maps one-to-one onto an English word. Read the meanings and associations above as a set — a character that fits the dictionary definition can still carry a connotation you did not intend.

  • Name readings of 魚

    Given names 魚(とと)Listen 魚(なな)Listen

    Surnames 魚(うお)Listen 魚(うおさき)Listen 魚(うおざき)Listen 魚(うをざき)Listen 魚(お)Listen 魚(ぎょ)Listen 魚(さかな)Listen

  • Dictionary Citations

    The meaning above is based on the following sources:

    KANJIDIC2 A comprehensive Japanese-English kanji dictionary

    fish

    Unihan Unicode Han Database for CJK characters

    fish; surname; Kangxi radical 195

    CC-CEDICT A Chinese-English dictionary

    surname Yu

    Make Me a Hanzi Open-source Chinese character data

    fish

    XSZD Xuéshēng Zìdiǎn (學生字典) - Student's Dictionary

    A type of aquatic creature. Has scales and fins. Cold-blooded. Egg-laying. There are extremely many species. Often used as food. Hence also used as a metaphor for oppressing others, called 魚肉 (treating as fish and meat). As in describing powerful people oppressing their villages.

  • Onyomi

    tip

    gyo(ギョ) ギョ

  • Kunyomi

    tip

    sakana(さかな) さかな

    uo(うお) うお

    zakana(ざかな) ざかな

  • Strokes

    tip

    11 strokes

  • Radical

    tip

    魚 (uo・uohen・sakanahen)

  • Related Keywords

    fish to fish seafood aquatic marine catch fin gill scale swim salmon tuna trout bass cod mackerel sardine herring sushi

Sentences including 魚

  • I'm allergic to fish.

  • Do you like fish?

  • I could not catch as many fish as i had expected.

  • Meat or fish?

  • Father and i go fishing once in a while.

  • This is the fish he caught.

  • Did you catch any fish in the river?

  • This fish is unfit to eat.

  • This river abounds in small fish.

  • We eat fish raw.

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