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咸鱼

xián yú

2-character word Traditional 鹹魚

What 咸鱼 means

1. salted fish

The characters in 咸鱼

• 咸xiánall; everyone; each
• 鱼yúfish; used in the names of various aquatic animals that are not fish (including abalone 鲍鱼

Example sentences

• 做人如果没有梦想，那和咸鱼有什幺区别？
  Without dreams, what different are we from animals?

Words starting with 咸鱼

• 咸鱼翻身xián yú fān shēnlit. the salted fish turns over (idiom); fig. to experience a reversal of fortune

Sounds the same

Read xián yú, tone for tone, but written differently.

• 闲余(of one's time) idle; unoccupied