鱼yú
Character evolution
鱼
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繁体
Traditional Chinese
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Shuowen
Fish. The pictograph depicts a fish with its body, tail, fins, and scales clearly recognizable in the oracle bone inscriptions, capturing the essential features of the creature in a single strokes. This straightforward visual representation reflects the ancient scribes' direct observation of the animal, and the character has remained largely recognizable throughout three millennia of script evolution, with the modern form preserving the fish's distinctive outline despite centuries of stylistic simplification.
Pinyin
yú· HSK 2