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Character Decomposition
鱼=⺈+田+一
Etymology
A fish swimming upwards
Meanings
fish
used in the names of various aquatic animals that are not fish (including abalone bào yú, alligators and crocodiles è yú and octopi zhāng yú)
surname Yu
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Words with 鱼 1086 total
to fish (with line and hook); to angle · (fig.) to entrap · (Tw) to repeatedly nod one's head while dozing钓鱼diào yúbetta fish; Siamese fighting fish (Betta splendens) · Chinese betta; paradise fish (genus Macropodus)斗鱼dòu yúwhitefish白鱼bái yútapertail anchovy (Coilia ectenes) · various species of cutlassfish · saury刀鱼dāo yúsalmon · trout鲑鱼guī yúnorthern snakehead (Channa argus)黑鱼hēi yúgrass carp草鱼cǎo yú
Idioms with 鱼 209 total Chain
lit. fish sink, goose alights (idiom, from Zhuangzi); fig. female beauty captivating even the birds and beasts沉鱼落雁chén yú luò yàna 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城门失火，殃及池鱼chéng mén shī huǒ , yāng jí chí yú