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黃魚
简 黄鱼 · 繁 黃魚Mandarin · pinyin huáng yú
Meanings
- yellow croaker (fish)
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2–2 · huang2 yu2
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noun
- yellow fish, particularly: — (literary) Alternative name for 鱣／鳣 (zhān, “a kind of sturgeon”).
- yellow fish, particularly: — (～屬) yellow croaker (Larimichthys)
- yellow fish, particularly: — rock greenling (Hexagrammos lagocephalus)
- yellow fish, particularly: — Chacunda gizzard shad (Anodontostoma chacunda)
- yellow fish, particularly: — naked osman (Gymnodiptychus dybowskii)
- yellow fish, particularly: — Xenocypris davidi
- (dated) passenger picked up by a sailor or driver for extra money earned on the side
- (dialectal) gold bar
- (southern Jiangsu, dated) woman with large feet
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