Keyword
fish
Info
FrequencyTop 900-1000
Type
Kyōiku (2nd grade) 
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KankenLevel 9
Heisig183
Readings
うお
(26%)
(20%)
ぎょ
(12%)
こう
(9%)
Composed of
hook claw
rice field
fire sparks
Mnemonic

You know how dead fish always rise to the surface? Let's set the rice field on fire and then use our hook to grab all of the fish! What do you mean there are no fish swimming in the rice fields? But it's full of water!

Used in kanji (83 in total)
fresh
resurrect
gathering seafood
scaled
whale
carp
sweetfish
shark
sea bream
cod
eel
salmon
fabulous dolphin-like fish
Russia
mackerel
bonito
crocodile
fish fin
thistle
sardine
crucian
sushi
trout
fresh-water catfish
loach (fish)
tuna
abalone
gills
sea bass
conger
horse mackerel
herring
horse mackerel [old]
large shark
yellowtail
type of fish
Spanish mackerel
sillaginoid
sole
seasoned rice
dace (carp)
goby (fish)
widower
lizard fish
bullhead
mullet (fish)
short necked clam
angler-fish
puffer fish
anglerfish
cuttlefish
???
???
prawn
???
sandfish
flounder
minnow
skate
large mythical fish
green sturgeon
flathead (fish)
fish bladder
mullet roe
silver carp
yellow fish (herring) eggs (sushi)
type of sea bream
???
???
the nautilus
???
Japanese dace
Moray eel
???
barracuda
carassius auratus
???
anchovy
gizzard shad
rockfish
flatfish
sturgeon
a type of fish
Used in vocabulary (431 in total)
small fish; small fry; (a) nobody; small fry; unimportant person
mermaid; merman
Examples (200 in total)
At that store, they deal in fish and meat.
Would you like meat or fish?
This is how I cook fish.