鮠 (wéi): longsnout catfish (genus Leioca…

Measure Word

一条鮠 tiáo

Meanings

1 longsnout catfish (genus Leiocassis)
2 a bagrid catfish

Characters

鮠

wéi

longsnout catfish

Examples

鮠是长江流域的特色鱼类。

Wéi shì Chángjiāng liúyù de tèsè yúlèi.

The longsnout catfish is a signature fish of the Yangtze basin.

长吻鮠又称江团,肉质鲜美。

Cháng wěn wéi yòuchēng jiāng tuán, ròu zhì xiānměi.

The longsnout catfish, also called jiangtuan, has delicious flesh.

Tips

culture

Best-known species is 长吻鮠 (Leiocassis longirostris), a high-value freshwater fish in Sichuan/Hubei cuisine where it's called 江团. Distinguish from the similar-looking 鲶 (catfish, Silurus) and 鲖 — bagrid catfish lack the flat snout and have a longer second dorsal fin.

mistakes

Pronounced wéi in biological / CC-CEDICT usage. Some older dictionaries list tuó, but modern ichthyology (and the taxon name 鮠科 Bagridae in Chinese) uses wéi.

Components

radical

鱼 yú

fish

鱼 (fish) is the indexing radical. 鮠 names the longsnout catfish — a freshwater bagrid native to Chinese rivers. The fish radical immediately flags this as a species name, joining 鲶 (catfish), 鲈 (perch), 鲟 (sturgeon) in the river-fish lexicon. The fish form here is slightly contracted on the page.

phonetic

危 wēi

danger

危 (wēi) supplies the sound, drifted to wéi. A pure phonetic borrowing — no implied threat in the catfish, just a tidy sound-match. The right-side form is a contracted four-stroke variant of the fuller standalone 危. Same phonetic series: 跪 (kneel), 诡 (deceive), 脆 (crispy).

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