See also: 钓鱼

Chinese edit

to fish with a hook and bait fish
trad. (釣魚)
simp. (钓鱼)

Pronunciation edit



Rime
Character
Reading # 1/1 1/1
Initial () (5) (31)
Final () (93) (22)
Tone (調) Departing (H) Level (Ø)
Openness (開合) Open Open
Division () IV III
Fanqie
Baxter tewH ngjo
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang
Shangfang
/teuH/ /ŋɨʌ/
Pan
Wuyun
/teuH/ /ŋiɔ/
Shao
Rongfen
/teuH/ /ŋiɔ/
Edwin
Pulleyblank
/tɛwH/ /ŋɨə̆/
Li
Rong
/teuH/ /ŋiɔ/
Wang
Li
/tieuH/ /ŋĭo/
Bernard
Karlgren
/tieuH/ /ŋi̯wo/
Expected
Mandarin
Reflex
diào
Expected
Cantonese
Reflex
diu3 jyu4
BaxterSagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character
Reading # 1/1 1/1
Modern
Beijing
(Pinyin)
diào
Middle
Chinese
‹ tewH › ‹ ngjo ›
Old
Chinese
/*[t]ˁewk-s/ /*[r.ŋ]a/
English to angle fish (n.)

Notes for Old Chinese notations in the Baxter–Sagart system:

* Parentheses "()" indicate uncertain presence;
* Square brackets "[]" indicate uncertain identity, e.g. *[t] as coda may in fact be *-t or *-p;
* Angle brackets "<>" indicate infix;
* Hyphen "-" indicates morpheme boundary;

* Period "." indicates syllable boundary.
Zhengzhang system (2003)
Character
Reading # 1/1 1/1
No. 11183 15939
Phonetic
component
Rime
group
Rime
subdivision
2 0
Corresponding
MC rime
Old
Chinese
/*pleːwɢs/ /*ŋa/

Verb edit

釣⫽魚 (verb-object)

  1. to fish; to angle
  2. (figurative) to dupe; to trick; to deceive; to catfish
  3. (figurative, of the police) to entrap someone; to enforce the law by framing a case against the captured
  4. (computing, figurative) to phish
  5. (chiefly Cantonese, 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)
  6. (intransitive, Internet slang, figurative) to troll

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