yú
to fish
Depicts catching fish (魚) 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
Evolution

Oracle script
(~1250-1000 BC)
Bronze script
Late Shang dynasty (~1100 BC)
Seal script
Shuowen (~100 AD)
Clerical script
Eastern Han dynasty (25-220 AD)Regular script
ModernHistorical pronunciation
Old Chinese | Middle Chinese | Pinyin | Gloss |
*[ŋ](r)a | ngjo | yú | to fish |
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 | 14 |
Simplified | |
Unicode | U+6F01 |
Shuowen | “,捕魚也。从,从水。漁,篆文从魚。” |
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