鲢 (lián): silver carp, a common freshwate…

Measure Word

一条鲢鱼 tiáo

连续下了三天雨，今天终于放晴了。

Liánxù xià le sāntiān yǔ, jīntiān zhōngyú fàngqíng le.

It rained for three days straight, finally clearing up today.

history

Rarely used alone, almost always in 鲢鱼 or 白鲢 (silver carp), one of the traditional "four domestic fishes". It is the fish radical 鱼 plus phonetic 连.

radical

鱼 yú

fish

The fish radical on the left, a pictograph of a fish. It supplies the meaning, marking the word as a species of fish, the same family as 鲤 and 鲫.

phonetic

连 lián

to link; phonetic

The right side carries the sound lián exactly. It contributes pronunciation only; its everyday "to connect" sense does not enter this fish name.

鲢 lián