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魚

Fish
Stroke count: 11

Readings

On readingギョ
Kun readingうお、さかな

Meanings

  1. fishRtK

Synonyms

フィッシュ魚類

Popular Usage

金魚

Radicals and components

Radical魚fish
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Mnemonic (RtK)

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bound up (乙) · rice field (田) · brains · oven-fire (灬) · barbecue (灬)

From "Remembering the Kanji" by James Heisig · Frame 183

Compound words

私が外国人なら、生魚を食べることはできないだろう。なまざかな
Were I a foreigner, I could not eat raw fish.tatoeba
その湖には魚が豊富にいる。さかな
The lake abounds with fish.tatoeba
彼は熱帯魚を飼っている。
He is raising tropical fishes.tatoeba
彼は川へ魚釣りに行った。
He went fishing in the river.tatoeba
彼は生の魚を食べない。
He doesn't eat raw fish.tatoeba
彼は魚屋です。
He is a fish dealer.tatoeba

Real voices: how native speakers say it

These sentences were read aloud by real people — native Japanese speakers — for the open Mozilla Common Voice project. Listen to how a phrase sounds in real speech: the intonation, the pace, the way words run together. Two speakers mean two different people read it — compare them.

魚の缶詰めはタレがうまい
さかなのかんづめはたれがうまいThe sauce in canned fish is delicious.
小さないけすに魚が飼ってあって、
ちいさないけすにさかながかってあって、There's a small fish tank with fish in it,
金魚が水槽を見回して、「もうちょっと広い部屋が欲しいな」と考えた
きんぎょがすいそうをみまわして、「もうちょっとひろいへやがほしいな」とかんがえたThe goldfish looked around the tank thinking, 'I want a bigger room.'

Recordings and sentences: Mozilla Common Voice, CC0

Stroke Order

11 strokes

Fish. A head on top, a scaly body (田) and tail (灬).

Practice Writing

Practice Writing 魚

Draw with a guide, then from memory — checked at every step