Rivers in southern China host various gudgeon species.
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A single-character genus name mostly used in ichthyology compounds like 银鮈 (silver gudgeon) or 棒花鱼属鮈类. Rarely appears alone outside scientific contexts.
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魚yú
fish
魚 is the full traditional fish radical - head on top, ribbed body in the middle, finned tail (灬) at the bottom. It is preserved in 鮈 because the character is a technical genus name in ichthyology where the unsimplified radical persists. Marks 鮈 as a small carp-family fish.
句 (jù) supplies the sound - initial preserved, rime shifted to ū with tone change to first tone (jū). The same phonetic also drives 拘 (detain), 驹 (colt), 钩 (hook), 狗 (dog) - all riding the jū/gōu phonetic family. No semantic contribution; pure sound-marker.
No stroke data for 鮈; the glyph shown is your device font, so component strokes can't be highlighted.
