HSK 2 · Food

鱼 yú “fish” in Chinese

Traditional 魚

What 鱼 means

  1. fish
  2. used in the names of various aquatic animals that are not fish (including abalone 鲍鱼, alligators and crocodiles 鳄鱼 and octopi 章鱼)

How to say 鱼

  • Pitch chart of the second tone: rises from mid to high, 3 to 5 on the five-level scale鱼yú2nd tone, rising

鱼 in a sentence

  1. 我想吃点鱼。

    Wǒ xiǎng chī diǎn yú.

    I would like some fish.

    Sentence #2336793 from Tatoeba

  2. 这条鱼很好吃。

    Zhè tiáo yú hěn hǎochī.

    This fish is delicious.

    Sentence #2778814 from Tatoeba

  3. 我在超市买到了新鲜的鱼。

    Wǒ zài chāoshì mǎi dào le xīnxiān de yú.

    I bought fresh fish at the supermarket.

    Sentence #8865160 from Tatoeba · translation adapted

How 鱼 is built

Each colour is one part of the character. Parts repeat across thousands of characters, so learning them makes new words easier. See all 214 in our radicals chart.

The character 鱼 (yú) with each of its parts in a different colour
鱼yúfish 条,尾)
  • ⺈knife form of 刀 · dāo
  • 田field · tián
  • 一one · yī

How to write 鱼

鱼 8 strokes

Watch the order, then press Try writing it and draw each stroke in the grid. Each stroke is checked as you go.

鱼 (yú) stroke order chart: each stroke of the character in the order you write it
Stroke order chart for 鱼 (yú). Red marks the next stroke, so you can copy it onto paper one step at a time.

Words related to 鱼

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FAQs

鱼 (yú) means “fish” or “used in the names of various aquatic animals that are not fish (including abalone 鲍鱼, alligators and crocodiles 鳄鱼 and octopi 章鱼)”. It is an HSK 2 word, so it is one of the words learners meet early.
Say it yú: yú with a 2nd tone. Press Listen at the top of this page to hear it, or Slowly to hear each tone clearly.
In Traditional characters, used in Taiwan and Hong Kong, 鱼 is written 魚. The pronunciation is the same.
Add a Chinese (Simplified) pinyin keyboard to your phone or computer, type yu with no tone marks or spaces, then choose 鱼 from the suggestions. Typing yu into this dictionary’s search box finds it too.
鱼 is an HSK 2 word in the HSK 2.0 word lists.

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Sources: meaning and pinyin checked by a native Mandarin teacher against the official HSK lists. Extra meanings from CC-CEDICT (CC BY-SA 4.0). Example sentences from Tatoeba (CC BY 2.0 FR). Character parts and stroke order from Make Me a Hanzi.