鱼
fish / CL:條|条[tiao2],尾[wei3]
鱼
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⺈
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田
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一
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Yu the Great set up a small rice field just inside the entrance of the space station, and there are some fish swimming in the rice field. The space station's crane spotted them and wants to snap one out of the rice field, but just as he was about to snatch one of them, Yu the Great hit him with a flute.
鱼 character breakdown
one / single / a (article) / as soon as / entire; whole; all; throughout / "one" radical in Chinese characters (Kangxi radical 1) / also pr. [yao1] for greater clarity when spelling out numbers digit by digit
Maud Younger (y) forgot her keys to the space station (Ø1), all she brought outside was her flute (一). She has no choice but to crash the door with the giant flute.
Character component without intrinsic meaning
I think this looks like a crane; to the left is its wing, and to the right its head.
Characters with 鱼 as component
fresh / bright (in color) / delicious / tasty / delicacy / aquatic foods
fish / old variant of 鮮|鲜[xian1]
to weigh / weight / measure
衡
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彳
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鱼
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人
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亍
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Hamlet (h) and Neanderthal Man (人) don't know how much fish (鱼) they should have for dinner. In engine's kitchen ((e)ng2) they decide that they will settle the issue by balancing (衡) they shoes with an equal amount of fish. Hamlet commences by balancing his black sneaker (彳) with three fish. After he finished Neanderthal Man balanced his full armor boot (亍) by using nine fish.
surname Lu / Lu, ancient state of China 魯國|鲁国[Lu3 guo2] / Lu, short name for Shandong 山東|山东[Shan1 dong1]
(bound form) crass / stupid / rude / (used to represent the sounds of "ru", "lu" etc in loanwords)
fisherman / to fish
渔
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氵
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鱼
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One day, the fisherman (渔) caught a very beautiful fish (鱼), and because it could talk, he let it free again. When he got back to his wife Yu the Great (yu) and the water bottle (氵) they were living together in in the space station's kitchen (Ø2) he told her about the fish, and Yu the Great told him to go back to have him fulfill his wish. Long story short, they were living better and better lives, but at the end, they returned to their old water bottle (氵) again.
Words with 鱼
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
lit. either the fish dies or the net gets torn (idiom) / fig. it's a life-and-death struggle / it's either him or me
lit. to be the meat on sb's chopping block (idiom) / fig. to be at sb's mercy
lit. sitting at ease in a fishing boat despite wind and storm (idiom); to stay calm during tense situation / a cool head in a crisis
lit. to sit tight on the fishing terrace despite the storm (idiom) / fig. to stay calm in a tense situation
Sentences with 鱼
鱼 currently does not appear in any sentence.