HSK 6 · Work

渔民 yúmín “fisherman” in Chinese

Traditional 漁民

What 渔民 means

  1. fisherman
  2. fishing community
  3. fisher folk

How to say 渔民

  • Pitch chart of the second tone: rises from mid to high, 3 to 5 on the five-level scale渔yú2nd tone, rising
  • Pitch chart of the second tone: rises from mid to high, 3 to 5 on the five-level scale民mín2nd tone, rising

渔民 in a sentence

  1. 渔民用他的网捕到了一只紫色的水母。

    Yúmín yòng tā de wǎng bǔ dào le yì zhī zǐsè de shuǐmǔ.

    The fisherman caught a purple jellyfish in his net.

    Sentence #8744858 from Tatoeba

How 渔民 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 渔 (yú) with each of its parts in a different colour
渔yúfisherman
  • 氵water form of 水 · shuǐ
  • 鱼fish · yú
The character 民 (mín) with each of its parts in a different colour
民mínthe people
  • 巳part of the character
  • 戈halberd · gē

How to write 渔民

渔 11 strokes · 民 5 strokes

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

Words related to 渔民

Words with 民

民族mínzú · nationality农民nóngmín · farmer移民yímín · to immigrate人民币rénmínbì · Renminbi (RMB)居民jūmín · resident公民gōngmín · citizen民间mínjiān · folk民主mínzhǔ · democracy殖民地zhímíndì · colony

More words: Work & Career

协议xiéyì · agreement薪水xīnshui · salary验收yànshōu · to check and accept应酬yìngchou · to socialise招收zhāoshōu · to recruit整顿zhěngdùn · to rectify值班zhíbān · to be on duty致力zhìlì · to devote oneself to

FAQs

渔民 (yúmín) means “fisherman” or “fishing community”. It is an HSK 6 word.
Say it yúmín: yú with a 2nd tone, then mín 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, 渔民 is written 漁民. The pronunciation is the same.
Add a Chinese (Simplified) pinyin keyboard to your phone or computer, type yumin with no tone marks or spaces, then choose 渔民 from the suggestions. Typing yumin into this dictionary’s search box finds it too.
渔民 is an HSK 6 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.