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.
Oracle script
Bronze script
Seal script
Clerical script
Regular script
Old Chinese | Middle Chinese | Pinyin | Gloss |
*[ŋ](r)a | ngjo | yú | to fish |
Not found in HSK word list
Appears in 3.5079% of movies
2600th most common character in movies
1770th most common character in books
Strokes | 14 |
Simplified | |
Unicode | U+6F01 |
Shuowen | “,捕魚也。从,从水。漁,篆文从魚。” |