Keyword
fish
Info
FrequencyTop 900-1000
Type
Kyōiku (2nd grade) 
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KankenLevel 9
Heisig183
Readings
うお
(31%)
こ
(18%)
ぎょ
(14%)
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 (86 in total)
fresh
resurrect
gathering seafood
scaled
whale
carp
shark
cod
sweetfish
sea bream
salmon
Russia
fabulous dolphin-like fish
eel
mackerel
bonito
crocodile
fish fin
crucian
sardine
sushi
thistle
trout
fresh-water catfish
loach (fish)
tuna
gills
abalone
conger
sea bass
horse mackerel
herring
horse mackerel [old]
yellowtail
sturgeon
large shark
type of fish
Spanish mackerel
sillaginoid
sole
seasoned rice
dace (carp)
goby (fish)
widower
lizard fish
mullet (fish)
short necked clam
bullhead
cuttlefish
angler-fish
puffer fish
anglerfish
???
???
prawn
sandfish
flounder
???
minnow
skate
large mythical fish
fish bladder
green sturgeon
flathead (fish)
mandarin fish
mullet roe
rockfish
???
silver carp
yellow fish (herring) eggs (sushi)
type of sea bream
???
???
the nautilus
???
Japanese dace
Moray eel
???
barracuda
carassius auratus
???
anchovy
gizzard shad
salamander
flatfish
a type of fish
Used in vocabulary (482 in total)
small fish; small fry; (a) nobody; small fry; noob; weak player
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.