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鲤鱼

lǐ yú

2-character word Traditional 鯉魚

What 鲤鱼 means

1. carp

The characters in 鲤鱼

• 鲤lǐcarp
• 鱼yúfish; used in the names of various aquatic animals that are not fish (including abalone 鲍鱼

Example sentences

• 鲤鱼和鳟鱼等鱼类生活在淡水中。
  Fish such as carp and trout live in fresh water.
• 鱼类例如鲤鱼和鳟鱼生活在淡水中。
  Yúlèi lìrú lǐyú hé zūnyú shēnghuó zài dànshuǐ zhōng.
  Fish such as carp and trout live in fresh water.

Words starting with 鲤鱼

• 鲤鱼旗lǐ yú qíkoinobori, a Japanese carp-shaped windsock flown to celebrate Children's Day
• 鲤鱼打挺lǐ yú dǎ tǐng(martial arts, gymnastics) to kip up (spring upright from supine without hands)…
• 鲤鱼跳龙门lǐ yú tiào lóng ménto make a significant advance in one's career (idiom); to get one's big break

Sounds the same

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

• 李渔Li Yu (1611-c. 1680), late Ming and early Qing writer and dramatist
• 鳢鱼blotched snakehead (Channa maculata)