shí
noun #70,888

Meanings

  1. 1 (in 鲥鱼) reeves shad, a prized food fish

Examples

Shíyú shì Chángjiāng xiàyóu yǒumíng de jiāngxiān zhīyī.
The shad is one of the famous river delicacies of the lower Yangtze.
Zhēng shíyú shí bù qù lín, yīnwèi lín xià de zhīfáng zuì xiān.
When steaming shad you keep the scales on, because the fat under them is the tastiest part.

Tips

culture
appears almost only as 鲥鱼 ('reeves shad'). It runs up rivers to spawn at a fixed season each year — the name itself contains ('time, season') for exactly this reason.

Components

radical
fish
is the simplified fish radical on the left, classifying as a kind of fish.
phonetic
shí
time; season
('time, season') on the right gives the exact sound shí — and meaningfully so, since this fish returns to spawn at a fixed season every year.

Stroke Order

shí