Zhōngguó Yúnnán de Lán cāng Jiāng lǐ yě yǒu pī fēnbù.
The goonch is also found in the Lancang River in Yunnan, China.
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A single-character fish name; the 鱼 radical gives the category and 丕 the sound. English anglers know the goonch from lurid stories on the Kali River in India — a very real giant bagrid that can grow past two metres and ambushes prey in strong currents.
Left fish radical, simplified from 魚 (the four-dot 灬 tail compressed to a single horizontal stroke). It indexes 魾 in the fish-name family: 鲤 carp, 鲨 shark, 鲸 whale, 鳗 eel. Any character with 鱼 on the left names a specific fish species — and 魾 is the goonch catfish, a giant predatory bagrid of South Asian rivers.
Right side 丕 supplies the sound directly: pī. Same phonetic appears in 坯 unfired brick, 胚 embryo, 邳 surname Pi. 丕 itself is 不 with an added horizontal, an archaic graph that meant 'great, vast' — a faint fit for the goonch's reputation as one of the largest freshwater catfish, easily over two meters long.
No stroke data for 魾; the glyph shown is your device font, so component strokes can't be highlighted.
