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漢字Kanji · in Nature & Elements

漁: fishing, fishery

JLPT N214 strokesGrade 4Your ink: 白 Not met

氵 carries the meaning · 魚 gives the sound

14 strokes
  • Small seal · Qin
  • Today

Small seal: Wikimedia Commons, public domain. Today’s form: KanjiVG, CC BY-SA 3.0.

Two readings, and the words that use each

ギョgyo · on'yomi · in compounds

  • 漁村ぎょそんfishing village
  • 漁業ぎょぎょうfishing
  • 漁船ぎょせんfishing boat

リョウryou · on'yomi

  • 漁りょうfishing catch
  • 漁師りょうしfisherman
  • 出漁するしゅつりょうするgo fishing

Also read あさる, with no example words in our sources. Words: Kanji alive, CC BY 4.0.

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Where it comes from

Memory story · made up to help you remember

“Imagine three raindrops falling—that's sanzui! Whenever you see these three dots on the left side of a kanji, think of water, liquids, or anything that flows.”
More in the 氵 water story
繋がり
Ink shades, lightest to darkest: 白 Not met, 淡 Met, 中 Learning, 濃 Familiar, 印 Mastered
氵

Also built on water (氵)

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魚

Also built on fish (魚)

All 5

漁 takes the 魚 family's reading, ギョ (gyo).

Also read ギョ

2 kanji share this on'yomi

Also read リョウ

29 kanji share this on'yomiAll 29

Easy to confuse

The difference, side by side
漁 fishing · 氵
vs鮎 freshwater trout · 占
漁 has 氵 where 鮎 has 占.
In ChineseSimplified 渔 · traditional, as in Japanese · yú

Japan keeps the traditional form 漁; mainland China simplifies it to 渔.

Simplified
渔 mainland China, Singapore
Traditional
漁 Taiwan, Hong Kong

Pinyin yú most common reading

Forms and pinyin: Unicode Unihan database (Unicode License v3). Pinyin lists the most common reading, not every reading.

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