The Chinese word for fish is
鱼
yú
Chinese Definition
| fish | |
| 1. 名词. 魚 |
Translations for fish and their definitions
| 魚 | |
| 1. fish | |
| 2. fish (as a food) (attn, zh, compare to other meats like 牛肉? 07:45, 30 December 2018 (UTC)) | |
| 3. (telegraphy) the sixth day of a month |
| 釣魚 | |
| 1. v. to fish; to angle | |
| 2. v. (figurative) to dupe; to trick; to deceive; to catfish | |
| 3. v. (figurative, of the police) to entrap someone; to enforce the law by framing a case against the captured | |
| 4. v. (computing, figurative) to phish | |
| 5. v. (chiefly Cantonese figurative) to nod off; to doze off (in class, meeting, etc. and lower and raise the head cyclically, like the tip of a fishing rod) | |
| 6. v. (intransitive, internet slang) to troll |
| 鱼 | |
| 1. Variant of 魚 |
| 钓鱼 | |
| 1. Simplified form of 釣魚 |
| 漁 | |
| 1. (zh-no-solo) to fish | |
| 漁民 - fishermen | |
| 漁船 - fishing boat | |
| 漁業 - fishery | |
| 休漁 - to halt fishing | |
| 授.人.以.魚.不如.授.人.以.漁 - give a man a fish and you feed him for a day; teach a man to fish and you feed him for a lifetime | |
| 2. (zh-no-solo) to seize; to pursue (illegitimately) | |
| 漁利 - to reap unfair gains |
| 鱼儿 | |
| 1. Simplified form of 魚兒 |
| 渔 | |
| 1. Simplified form of 漁 |
| 魚肉 | |
| 1. n. fish (as meat); flesh of fish | |
| 2. n. fish and meat | |
| 3. n. (literary) victims of oppression | |
| 4. v. (literary) to cruelly oppress | |
| 任人 魚肉 - to be oppressed by others |
| 鱼肉 | |
| 1. Simplified form of 魚肉 |
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