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鲑

guī

Character Traditional 鮭

What 鲑 means

1. trout
2. salmon

Example sentences

• 我要半条鲑鱼。
  I want half of a salmon.
• 给我三片鲑鱼肉。
  Give me three pieces of salmon.
• 鲑鱼是关键物种。
  Salmon are a keystone species.
• 鲑鱼在淡水中产卵。
  Guīyú zài dànshuǐ zhōng chǎnluǎn.
  Salmon lay their eggs in fresh water.
• 这条河里有很多鲑鱼。
  Zhè tiáo hé lǐ yǒu hěn duō guīyú.
  This river abounds in trout.
• 你最喜欢怎么烧鲑鱼?
  Nǐ zuì xǐhuan zěnme shāo guīyú?
  What's your favorite way to cook trout?

Words starting with 鲑

• 鲑鱼guī yúsalmon; trout

Characters built on 圭

These share the phonetic component 圭 (guī), which is why their readings rhyme. Learning them as a family is far cheaper than learning them one at a time.

• 硅guīsilicon (chemistry)
• 奎kuícrotch; 15th of the 28th constellations of Chinese astronomy
• 桂guìcassia; laurel
• 闺guīsmall arched door; boudoir; lady's chamber; (fig.) women
• 眭suīto have a deep or piercing gaze
• 恚huìrage
• 跬kuǐbrief; short step
• 筀guìbamboo (archaic)

Characters that look like 鲑

Easy to confuse on sight. Compare them side by side once and the pair stops costing you.

• 酷kùruthless; strong (e.g. of wine); (loanword) cool
• 鞋xiéshoe
• 骷kūused in 骷髅
• 骰tóudice
• 毂gūused in 毂辘
• 鲤lǐcarp

Sounds the same

Read guī, tone for tone, but written differently.

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• 龟tortoise; turtle; (colloquial) cuckold
• 瑰(semiprecious stone); extraordinary
• 圭jade tablet, square at the base and rounded or pointed at the top, held by the nobility…
• 硅silicon (chemistry)
• 闺small arched door; boudoir; lady's chamber; (fig.) women
• 沩name of a river in Shanxi
• 皈to comply with; to follow
• 傀grand; strange; exotic
• 槻zelkova tree
• 巂cuckoo; revolution of a wheel