noun

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tiáo

Meanings

  1. 1 goonch catfish (genus Bagarius)
  2. 2 a large predatory catfish of South and Southeast Asian rivers

Examples

Pī shì nányà héliú zhōng tǐxíng zuì dà de niányú zhī yī.
The goonch is one of the largest catfish in South Asian rivers.
Zhōngguó Yúnnán de Láncāng Jiāng lǐ yě yǒu pī fēnbù.
The goonch is also found in the Lancang River in Yunnan, China.

Tips

usage
A single-character fish name; the radical gives the category and 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.

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