fish

Origin & mnemonic

The fish radical (⿂) is a pictograph depicting a fish in side view, showing the head, body, and fins clearly. It originates from pictographic forms in ancient oracle-bone script.

Mnemonic: See the fish shape: head at top, body and fins in middle, tail at bottom—imagine a living fish swimming through water.

• 鲤lǐ🔊

  carp

  15 strokes

• 魸piàn🔊

  catfish

  15 strokes

• 鲠gěng🔊

  to choke on a piece of food

  15 strokes

• 鲡lí🔊

  used in 鰻鱺|鳗鲡[man2 li2]

  15 strokes

• 鲢lián🔊

  Hypophthalmichthys moritrix

  15 strokes

• 鲣jiān🔊

  bonito

  15 strokes

• 鲥shí🔊

  used in 鰣魚|鲥鱼[shi2 yu2]

  15 strokes

• 鲦tiáo🔊

  Korean sharpbelly (fish, Hemiculter leucisculus)

  15 strokes

• 鲧Gǔn🔊

  variant of 鯀|鲧[Gun3]

  15 strokes

• 鲩huàn🔊

  grass carp

  15 strokes

• 鲪jūn🔊

  Sebastodes guntheri

  15 strokes

• 鲫jì🔊

  bastard carp

  15 strokes

• 𩾁qiú🔊

  Lepidotrigla strauchi

  15 strokes

• 𩾃miǎn🔊

  Sciaena albiflora

  15 strokes

• 𱇭lái🔊

  see 鰣魚|鲥鱼[shi2 yu2]

  15 strokes

• 鲸jīng🔊

  whale

  16 strokes

• 鲭qīng🔊

  mackerel

  16 strokes

• 䲟yìn🔊

  shark sucker (Echeneis naucrates)

  16 strokes

• 𫚒fú🔊

  used in 魴鮄|鲂𫚒[fang2 fu2]

  16 strokes

• 鲮líng🔊

  mud carp (Cirrhina molitorella)

  16 strokes

• 鲯qí🔊

  used in 鯕鰍|鲯鳅[qi2 qiu1]

  16 strokes

• 鲰zōu🔊

  minnows

  16 strokes

• 鲱fēi🔊

  Pacific herring

  16 strokes

• 鲲kūn🔊

  fry (newly hatched fish)

  16 strokes

• 鲳chāng🔊

  see 鯧魚|鲳鱼[chang1 yu2]

  16 strokes

• 鲴gù🔊

  Xenocypris, genus of cyprinid fish found in eastern Asia

  16 strokes

• 鲵ní🔊

  Cryptobranchus japonicus

  16 strokes

• 鲶nián🔊

  sheatfish (Parasilurus asotus)

  16 strokes

• 鲷diāo🔊

  porgy

  16 strokes

• 鲹shēn🔊

  carangid (zoology)

  16 strokes

• 鲻zī🔊

  mullet

  16 strokes

• 鳄è🔊

  (bound form) alligator; crocodile

  17 strokes

• 鲼fèn🔊

  any ray (fish) variety of Myliobatiformes order

  17 strokes

• 鲽dié🔊

  flatfish

  17 strokes

• 鲾bī🔊

  the ponyfishes, aka slipmouths (Leiognathidae, a family of fishes in the order Perciformes)

  17 strokes

• 鲿cháng🔊

  Bagridae (catfish family)

  17 strokes

• 鳀tí🔊

  anchovy

  17 strokes

• 鳁wēn🔊

  sardine

  17 strokes

• 鳃sāi🔊

  gills of fish

  17 strokes

• 鳅qiū🔊

  loach (family Cobitidae)

  17 strokes

• 鳆fù🔊

  Haliotis gigantea

  17 strokes

• 鳇huáng🔊

  sturgeon

  17 strokes

• 鳈quán🔊

  fish of genus Sarcocheilichthys (a genus of cyprinid fishes found in eastern Asia)

  17 strokes

• 鳊biān🔊

  bream

  17 strokes

• 𬶨jì🔊

  see 白鱀豚|白𬶨豚[bai2 ji4 tun2]

  17 strokes

• 鳍qí🔊

  fin

  18 strokes

• 鳌áo🔊

  mythological sea turtle

  18 strokes

• 鳎tǎ🔊

  sole (fish)

  18 strokes