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渔

yú

to fish

Simplified form of 漁. Depicts catching fish (鱼) from the water (氵). In many ancient forms, it was mostly written either as two hands holding a net catching a fish or four fish swimming in a stream of water.

Components
氵 iconic component

氵  Iconic component

shui, shuǐ

  

water

氵 is a component form of 水.

鱼 sound,iconic component

鱼  Sound Iconic component

yú

  

fish

鱼 also represents the sound.

Evolution

渔 Oracle script (~1250-1000 BC)

Oracle script

(~1250-1000 BC)
渔 Bronze script Late Shang dynasty (~1100 BC)

Bronze script

Late Shang dynasty (~1100 BC)
渔 Seal script Shuowen (~100 AD)

Seal script

Shuowen (~100 AD)
渔 Clerical script Eastern Han dynasty (25-220 AD)

Clerical script

Eastern Han dynasty (25-220 AD)
渔 Traditional script Modern

Traditional script

Modern
渔 Simplified script Modern

Simplified script

Modern
Definitions

渔 (漁) 

yú

to fish; seize; pursue; surname; fisherman

Most common words with 渔
Freq.
Word
Meaning

渔夫

fisherman

渔船

fishing boat

渔

fisherman

渔民

fisherman

渔业

fishery

Statistics

Not found in HSK word list

Appears in 3.5079% of movies

2600th most common character in movies

1770th most common character in books

Miscellaneous

Strokes

11

Traditional

漁

Unicode

U+6E14


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