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鲤鱼 (lǐ yú): meaning and stroke order

鲤鱼 (lǐ yú) means carp.

鲤鱼

Simplified
鲤鱼
Traditional
鯉魚
Pinyin
lǐ yú

Stroke order of 鲤鱼

鲤

  • lǐ carp
  • 15 strokes
  • Traditional form: 鯉

Stroke by stroke

鱼

  • Yú surname Yu
  • yú fish (CL:條|条[tiao2],尾[wei3]); used in the names of various aquatic animals that are not fish (including abalone 鮑魚|鲍鱼[bao4 yu2], alligators and crocodiles 鱷魚|鳄鱼[e4 yu2] and octopi 章魚|章鱼[zhang1 yu2])
  • 8 strokes
  • Traditional form: 魚

Stroke by stroke

Meaning of 鲤鱼

  1. lǐ yú Traditional 鯉魚
    • carp

Radicals of the characters

鲤
Radical 鱼 (Kangxi radical 195) in its simplified form · 15 strokes · 鱼 on the left, 里 on the right
鱼
Radical 鱼 (Kangxi radical 195) in its simplified form · 8 strokes

Radicals and stroke counts: Unicode Unihan database. Structure: the shapes a character is written with (BabelStone IDS), not necessarily parts that carry meaning or sound.

鲤鱼 in our stories

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  • 小鲤鱼听说，只要跳过龙门，就能变成龙。

    xiǎo lǐyú tīngshuō zhǐyào tiàoguò Lóngmén jiù néng biànchéng lóng

    The little carp heard that as long as it leaped over the Dragon Gate, it could become a dragon.

    From the story The little carp's decision HSK 3

  • 韩青只好在船边坐下。月光下，他看见瀑布下面的水里，有许多鲤鱼一次又一次地往上跳。

    Hán Qīng zhǐhǎo zài chuán biān zuò xià yuèguāng xià tā kànjiàn pùbù xiàmiàn de shuǐ lǐ yǒu xǔduō lǐyú yí cì yòu yí cì de wǎng shàng tiào

    He had no choice but to sit down by the boat. In the moonlight he saw, in the water below the falls, many carp leaping upward again and again.

    From the story The Dragon Gate and the ordinary fish HSK 7–9 · Level 9

Stories using 鲤鱼

Dictionary data: CC-CEDICT (CC BY-SA 4.0). Stroke data: Hanzi Writer data, derived from Make Me a Hanzi (Arphic Public License). Animation: Hanzi Writer (MIT licence). Radicals and stroke counts: Unicode Unihan (Unicode License v3).