The Chinese Radical: 魚


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Meaning
fish    魚

Explanation

Used in these characters:
JLPT HSK 2
fish

Simplified from
Image of a fish with mouth , body tail fin swimming upwards.
JLPT HSK 3
fresh, delicious, seldom, rare
xiān, xiǎn
Left: fish 鱼/ (= with mouth , body and tail fin ), right: sheep (The horned animal with a backbone and laterally protruding due to thick wool 三 is the: sheep)
(Both) fish and and sheep shall be fresh. (But formerly this was seldom.)
JLPT HSK 5
to weigh, weight, measure
héng
Outside: go , center: var. of fish , big (Here: See as a scale with two communicating plates ,亍 going up/down)
Put the fish: the big one, on the scales to weigh.
JLPT HSK 6
fishing, to fish, fisherman

Left: water , right: fish 鱼/ (.. with mouth , body and tail fin )
Water with fish stands for fishing.
JLPT HSK 6
stupid, clumsy, rude, crass

Top: fish 鱼/ (.. with mouth , body and tail fin ), bottom: sun
Putting the fish in the sun is stupid and clumsy.
JLPT no HSK
scales (of fish)
lín
Left: Fisch 鱼/ (... with mouth , body and tail fin ), right: 粦 (rice , oppose [= two twisted feet, like at: to dance 舞])
At the fish is sth. 'rice-shaped' up until the feet (= fins/flipper) which are the scales.
JLPT no HSK
fin

Left: fish 鱼/ (... with mouth , body and tail fin ), right: person above 60 years ( [Old man , sitting person ], sun )[old man & order, purpose ]
At the fish they give like an old man (with the fingers 指), the orders : the fins.
JLPT no HSK
abalone
bào
Left: fish 鱼/ (... with mouth , body and tail fin ), right: enwrap (The wrap itself makes it to be wrapped.)
Like a fish that is enwrapped (is this shell): The abalone.
JLPT no HSK
to revive, to rise again

Left: fish 鱼/ (... with mouth , body and tail fin ), right: rice plant
Fisch with rice plants is (enough for) for my revival.
JLPT no HSK
grumble, chatter

Left: mouth , right: stupid and clumsy (Putting the fish 鱼/ in the sun is stupid and clumsy.)
The sounds (= what comes out of the mouth) of sb. clumpy is: a grumble.
JLPT no HSK
carp

Left: fish 鱼/ (... with mouth , body and tail fin ), right: village (Fields and earth belong to a village)
(Next to the village were carp ponds to easily get food in winter) The fish near the village is the: carp.
JLPT no HSK
mythological sea turtle
áo
Top: to ramble (The growing plant would grow in all directions and needs the 攵 [= stick in a hand ] against rambling.), bottom: fish 鱼/
The rambling fish is this sea turtle.
JLPT no HSK
whale
jīng
Left: Fish 鱼/ (... with mouth , body and tail fin ), right: capital (image of a stone lantern)
(because of its oil) The fish for the stone lanterns is: the whale.
JLPT no HSK
shark
shā
Top: sand, gravel 沙 (in [unclear] water is always a little sand), bottom: fish 鱼/
In the sandy water is this fish: the shark.
JLPT no HSK
crocodile, alligator
è
Left: fish 鱼/ (= with mouth , body and tail fin ), right: jaw (two teeth , tongue , lower jaw )
The fish with the big jaw is: the alligator.
JLPT no HSK
gills of fish
sāi
Left: fish 鱼/ (... with mouth , body and tail fin ), right: to think (... with your brain and your heart )
The fish thinks with the gills?
JLPT no HSK
to reprimand, to fire (an employee), to rub

Left: hand , right: stupid, clumsy (Putting the fish 鱼/ in the sun is stupid and clumsy.)
The hand that is stupid is reprimanded.
JLPT no HSK
freshwater soft-shelled turtle
biē
Top: shabby, (humble) I (The cloth is hit/smashed 攵 into four pieces and then as shabby as I am.), bottom: fish 鱼/ (... with mouth , body and tail fin )
This shabby "fish" is a: turtle.

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