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鳢鱼

lǐ yú

2-character word Traditional 鱧魚

What 鳢鱼 means

1. blotched snakehead (Channa maculata)

The characters in 鳢鱼

• 鳢lǐsnakefish; snakehead mullet
• 鱼yúfish; used in the names of various aquatic animals that are not fish (including abalone 鲍鱼

Sounds the same

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

• 鲤鱼carp
• 李渔Li Yu (1611-c. 1680), late Ming and early Qing writer and dramatist

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