to fish

Depicts catching fish () from the water (). 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

  Iconic component

shuishuǐ

  

water

is a component form of .

魚 sound,iconic component

  Sound Iconic component

  

fish

also represents the sound.

Evolution

漁 Oracle script (~1250-1000 BC)

Oracle script

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

Bronze script

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

Seal script

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

Clerical script

Eastern Han dynasty (25-220 AD)
漁 Regular script Modern

Regular script

Modern
Definitions

() 

to fish; seize; pursue; surname; fisherman

Most common words with 漁
Freq.
Word
Meaning

渔夫

fisherman

渔船

fishing boat

fisherman

渔民

fisherman

渔业

fishery

Historical pronunciation

Old Chinese

Middle Chinese

Pinyin

Gloss

*[ŋ](r)a

ngjo

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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