鮈

jū
noun

Measure Word

一条鮈 tiáo

Meanings

  1. 1 gudgeon (small carp-family fish, Gobioninae)

Examples

HSK 5
Zhōngguó nánfāng héliú lǐ yǒu duōzhǒng jū lèi.
Rivers in southern China host various gudgeon species.
HSK 7-9
Jū shì dànshuǐ xiǎoxíng yúlèi.
Gudgeons are small freshwater fish.

Tips

usage
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.

Components

radical
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.
phonetic
句 jù
sentence; phrase
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.

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Stroke Order

鮈 jū