漁

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漁 (Kangxi radical 85, 水+11, 14 strokes, cangjie input 水弓田火 (ENWF), four-corner 3713₆, composition ⿰氵魚)

• 𤄣

• Kangxi Dictionary: page 644, character 21
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 18101
• Dae Jaweon: page 1052, character 5
• Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 3, page 1726, character 10
• Unihan data for U+6F01

Ideogrammic compound (會意／会意) and phono-semantic compound (形聲／形声, OC *ŋa) : semantic 氵 (“water”) + phonetic 魚 (OC *ŋa, “fish”).

From 魚 (OC *ŋa, “fish”).

漁

1. ^⁜ to fish

   漁民／渔民  ―  yúmín  ―  fishermen

   漁船／渔船  ―  yúchuán  ―  fishing boat

   漁業／渔业  ―  yúyè  ―  fishery

   休漁／休渔  ―  xiūyú  ―  to halt fishing

   授人以魚不如授人以漁 [MSC, trad.]
   授人以鱼不如授人以渔 [MSC, simp.]

   shòu rén yǐ yú bùrú shòu rén yǐ yú

   give a man a fish and you feed him for a day; teach a man to fish and you feed him for a lifetime

   • 夫眾之爲福也大，其爲禍也亦大。譬之若漁深淵，其得魚也大，其為害也亦大。 [Classical Chinese, trad.]
     夫众之为福也大，其为祸也亦大。譬之若渔深渊，其得鱼也大，其为害也亦大。 [Classical Chinese, simp.]

     From: Lü Buwei, Master Lü's Spring and Autumn Annals, 239 BCE

     Fú zhòng zhī wéi fú yě dà, qí wéi huò yě yì dà. Pì zhī ruò yú shēnyuān, qí dé yú yě dà, qí wéi hài yě yì dà.

     Having large forces can be a great blessing, but it can also be a great misfortune. The situation is analogous to fishing in a deep gorge: the chance of catching a fish there is greater, but the danger of being hurt is also greater.

2. ^⁜ to seize; to pursue (illegitimately)

   漁利／渔利  ―  yúlì  ―  to reap unfair gains

3. a surname

• “漁”, in 漢語多功能字庫 (Multi-function Chinese Character Database)‎, 香港中文大學 (the Chinese University of Hong Kong), 2014–
• Dictionary of Chinese Character Variants (教育部異體字字典), A02322

(Fourth grade kyōiku kanji)

1. to look for
2. fishing; to catch fish

• Go-on: ご (go)
• Kan-on: ぎょ (gyo, Jōyō)^{←ぎよ (gyo, historical)}
• Kan’yō-on: りょう (ryō, Jōyō)^{←れふ (refu, historical)}
• Kun: すなどる (sunadoru, 漁る)、いさる (isaru, 漁る)、すなどり (sunadori)、あさる (asaru, 漁る)

From (confusion with) 猟(りょう) (ryō, “hunting”).^[1]

• (Tokyo) りょー (Atamadaka – )^[1]
• IPA^(key):

漁(りょう) • (ryō) ^{←れふ (refu)?}

1. (business) fishing

From Middle Chinese 漁 (MC ngjo).

• (SK Standard/Seoul) IPA^(key):
• Phonetic hangul:

Korean Wikisource has texts containing the hanja:

漁

Wikisource

漁 (eumhun 고기 잡을 어 (gogi jabeul eo))

1. hanja form^? of 어 (“to fish”)

• 국제퇴계학회 대구경북지부 (國際退溪學會 大邱慶北支部) (2007). Digital Hanja Dictionary, 전자사전／電子字典.

漁: Hán Nôm readings: ngư

1. chữ Hán form of ngư (“to fish”).