渔
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fisherman; to fish
Formation & memory
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How 渔 is formed
Ideographic compound (会意字)
To fish 鱼 in a river氵; 鱼 also provides the pronunciation
How to remember it
fishing · Heisig RSH #155
鱼 fish + 水 water
Keyword method from Heisig's Remembering Simplified Hanzi.
Words with 渔
The most common words first — learning a character in context makes it stick.
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 渔人之利 | see 漁翁之利|渔翁之利[yu2 weng1 zhi1 li4] | |
| 授人以鱼不如授人以渔 | give a man a fish and you feed him for a day; teach a man to fish and you feed him for a l… | |
| 授之以鱼不如授之以渔 | give a man a fish and you feed him for a day; teach a man to fish and you feed him for a l… | |
| 坐收渔利 | benefit from others' dispute (idiom) | |
| 南方澳渔港 | Nanfang-ao Port in Yilan County 宜蘭縣|宜兰县[Yi2 lan2 Xian4], Taiwan | |
| 渔人 | fisherman | |
| 渔利 | to make an unethical profit; benefits gained from others' conflict | |
| 渔翁之利 | (idiom) the advantage gained by a third party when two sides are in conflict | |
| 渔线 | fishing line | |
| 渔民 | fisherman; fisher folk | |
| 渔阳 | old place name (in Yan of Warring states, in modern Beijing city) | |
| 渔船队 | fishing fleet | |
| 渔场 | fishing ground | |
| 渔业 | fishing industry; fishery | |
| 渔网 | fishing net | |
| 鹬蚌相争，渔翁得利 | lit. when the snipe and the clam grapple with each other, the fisherman catches them both … | |
| 渔夫 | fisherman | |
| 毛脚渔鸮 | (bird species of China) Blakiston's fish owl (Bubo blakistoni) | |
| 李渔 | Li Yu (1611-c. 1680), late Ming and early Qing writer and dramatist | |
| 渔船 | fishing boat; CL:條|条[tiao2] |