鲤
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carp
- Strokes
- 15
- Radical
- 魚 +7
- Structure
- Left–right 左右
- Traditional
- 鯉
- Common rank
- #3,008
- Unicode
- U+9CA4
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Formation & memory
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Words with 鲤
The most common words first — learning a character in context makes it stick.
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 鲤鱼跳龙门 | to make a significant advance in one's career (idiom); to get one's big break | |
| 鲤城区 | Licheng, a district of Quanzhou City 泉州市[Quan2 zhou1 Shi4], Fujian | |
| 鲤鱼旗 | koinobori, a Japanese carp-shaped windsock flown to celebrate Children's Day | |
| 鲤鱼打挺 | (martial arts, gymnastics) to kip up (spring upright from supine without hands); (fig.) to… | |
| 海鲤 | sea bream | |
| 鲤城 | see 鯉城區|鲤城区[Li3 cheng2 Qu1] | |
| 鲤鱼 | carp | |
| 锦鲤 | koi (Cyprinus carpio haematopterus) | |
| 鲮鲤科 | the pangolin family | |
| 裸鲤 | naked carp (Gymnocypris przewalskii) | |
| 鲮鲤甲 | pangolin (Manis pentadactylata); scaly ant-eater | |
| 鲮鲤 | pangolin (Manis pentadactylata); scaly ant-eater |
Sound family
Characters sharing the sound component 里 — compare how they read.