fisherman / to fish

= + : 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.

渔 character breakdown

"water" radical in Chinese characters (Kangxi radical 85), occurring in 沒|没[mei2], 法[fa3], 流[liu2] etc / see also 三點水|三点水[san1 dian3 shui3]

= + : Mnemonic symbol: a bottle of water. Sheldon Shrimp (shu) enjoys a bottle of water (氵) in the Eiffel Tower's living room (ei3). The got the water by scratching (㇀) a blossom (⺀) and catching the leaking dew in a bottle.
surname Yu
fish / CL:條|条[tiao2],尾[wei3]

= + + : 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.

Characters with 渔 as component

渔 is not used as a component in another character.

Words with 渔

benefit from others' dispute (idiom)
fishing vessel
give a man a fish and you feed him for a day; teach a man to fish and you feed him for a lifetime / knowledge is the best charity
Li Yu (1611-c. 1680), late Ming and early Qing writer and dramatist
(bird species of China) Blakiston's fish owl (Bubo blakistoni)
see 竭澤而漁|竭泽而渔[jie2 ze2 er2 yu2]
fishing (as a commercial activity)
fishing season
fishing pot (trap)
variant of 魚鉤|鱼钩[yu2 gou1]
variant of 魚鉤兒|鱼钩儿[yu2 gou1 r5]
old place name (in Yan of Warring states, in modern Beijing city)
(bird species of China) lesser fish eagle (Ichthyophaga humilis)
(bird species of China) Pallas's gull (Ichthyaetus ichthyaetus)
percussion instrument in the form of a bamboo fish (traditionally used by Daoist priests)
Nanfang-ao Port in Yilan County 宜蘭縣|宜兰县[Yi2 lan2 Xian4], Taiwan
give a man a fish and you feed him for a day; teach a man to fish and you feed him for a lifetime (idiom)

Sentences with 渔

渔 currently does not appear in any sentence.