字の旅3,000 years in four forms
Oracle bone · ShangShang · c. 1200 BCE前4.56.1 合10492
Oracle bone: Wikimedia Commons, traced from Academia Sinica, CC0. Bronze and small seal: Academia Sinica 小學堂, CC0. Today’s form: KanjiVG, CC BY-SA 3.0.
部首Radical · in Animals & Wildlife
魚
魚 fish
うお uo
11 strokesRadical of 6 kanjiPart of 6
Your ink in 魚0% painted · 0 of 6 familiar
Origin · sourced
Pictogram象形
A fish. A conservative variant is 𤋳.
Source: Wiktionary, 魚 (rev. 93769916), CC BY-SA 4.0
Memory story · made up to help you remember
“Watch the fish dart through the clear stream! The top stroke is the pointed head, the central box shows the shimmering scales of its body, and the dots at the bottom are the fins propelling it through the water. It represents the bounty of the sea and the graceful life beneath the waves.”
Where it sits in a kanji
Indicates fish, seafood, aquatic life, or the act of fishing and preparing food from the sea
育つ
What it grows into
Built from 魚, with sourced origins
- 鮮freshセン · あざやか
魚 + 羴sound
Phono-semantic compound · Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0
- 鯨whaleゲイ · くじら
魚 + 京sound
Phono-semantic compound · Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0
一覧
Every kanji with 魚 as its radical
Most used first
Ink shades, lightest to darkest: 白 Not met, 淡 Met, 中 Learning, 濃 Familiar, 印 Mastered
All 6 kanji