The Chinese Radical: 魚


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Meaning
fish    魚

Explanation

Used in these characters:
HSK 2
fish

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

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

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

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

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

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

Left: fish 鱼/魚 (... with mouth ⺈, body 田 and tail fin 灬), right: village 里 (Fields 田 and earth 土 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.  
no HSK
mythological sea turtle
áo
Top: to ramble 敖 (The growing plant would grow in all directions 方 and needs the 攵 [= stick 卜 in a hand 又] against rambling.), bottom: fish 鱼/魚
The rambling fish is this sea turtle.  
no HSK
whale
jīng
Left: Fish 鱼/魚 (... with mouth ⺈, body 田 and tail fin 灬), right: capital 京 (image of a stone lantern)
(because of its oil) The fish for the stone lanterns is: the whale.  
no HSK
shark
shā
Top: sand, gravel 沙 (in [unclear] water 氵is always a little 少 sand), bottom: fish 鱼/魚
In the sandy water is this fish: the shark.  
no HSK
crocodile, alligator
è
Left: fish 鱼/魚 (= with mouth ⺈, body 田 and tail fin 灬), right: jaw 咢 (two teeth 口, tongue 一, lower jaw 丂)
The fish with the big jaw is: the alligator.  
no HSK
gills of fish
sāi
Left: fish 鱼/魚 (... with mouth ⺈, body 田 and tail fin 灬), right: to think 思 (... with your brain 田 and your heart 心)
The fish thinks with the gills?  
no HSK
to reprimand, to fire (an employee), to rub

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

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