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Chinese
Pronunciation
| Baxter–Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
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| Character
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釣
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魚
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| Reading #
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1/1
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1/1
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Modern
Beijing
(Pinyin)
|
diào
|
yú
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Middle
Chinese
|
‹ tewH ›
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‹ ngjo ›
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Old
Chinese
|
/*ˁewk-s/
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/*a/
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| English
|
to angle
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fish (n.)
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Notes for Old Chinese notations in the Baxter–Sagart system:
* Parentheses "()" indicate uncertain presence;
* Square brackets "" indicate uncertain identity, e.g. * as coda may in fact be *-t or *-p;
* Angle brackets "<>" indicate infix;
* Hyphen "-" indicates morpheme boundary;
* Period "." indicates syllable boundary.
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| Zhengzhang system (2003)
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| Character
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釣
|
魚
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| Reading #
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1/1
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1/1
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| No.
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11183
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15939
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Phonetic
component
|
勺
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魚
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Rime
group
|
豹
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魚
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Rime
subdivision
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2
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0
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Corresponding
MC rime
|
弔
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魚
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Old
Chinese
|
/*pleːwɢs/
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/*ŋa/
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Verb
釣⫽魚 (verb-object)
- to fish; to angle
- (figurative) to dupe; to trick; to deceive; to catfish
- (figurative, of the police) to entrap someone; to enforce the law by framing a case against the captured
- (computing, figurative) to phish
- (Cantonese, Taiwan, figurative) to nod off; to doze off (in class, meeting, etc. and lower and raise the head cyclically, like the tip of a fishing rod)
- (intransitive, Internet slang, figurative) to troll
Synonyms
- (to fish): 垂釣／垂钓 (chuídiào)
- (to troll): 引戰／引战 (yǐnzhàn)
Derived terms