釣魚
See also: 钓鱼
Chinese edit
to fish with a hook and bait | fish | ||
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trad. (釣魚) | 釣 | 魚 | |
simp. (钓鱼) | 钓 | 鱼 |
Pronunciation edit
Verb edit
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
- (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)
- (intransitive, Internet slang, figurative) to troll