釣魚

See also: 钓鱼

Chinese

		to fish with a hook and bait	fish
trad. (釣魚)		釣	魚
simp. (钓鱼)		钓	鱼

Pronunciation

Mandarin
(Standard)
(Pinyin): diàoyú

(Zhuyin): ㄉㄧㄠˋ ㄩˊ

(Chengdu, Sichuanese Pinyin): diao⁴ yu²

(Dungan, Cyrillic and Wiktionary): дёйү (di͡oyü, III-I)
Cantonese (Jyutping): diu³ jyu^4-2 / diu³ jyu⁴
Gan (Wiktionary): dieu⁴ nyie⁴
Hakka (Sixian, PFS): tiau-ǹg
Eastern Min (BUC): diéu-ngṳ̀
Southern Min
(Hokkien, POJ): tiò-hî / tiò-hû

(Teochew, Peng'im): dion³ he⁵

Mandarin
- (Standard Chinese)⁺
  - Hanyu Pinyin: diàoyú
  - Zhuyin: ㄉㄧㄠˋ ㄩˊ
  - Tongyong Pinyin: diàoyú
  - Wade–Giles: tiao⁴-yü²
  - Yale: dyàu-yú
  - Gwoyeu Romatzyh: diawyu
  - Palladius: дяоюй (djaojuj)
  - Sinological IPA ^(key): /ti̯ɑʊ̯⁵¹ y³⁵/
- (Chengdu)
  - Sichuanese Pinyin: diao⁴ yu²
  - Scuanxua Ladinxua Xin Wenz: diaoy
  - Sinological IPA ^(key): /tiau²¹³ y²¹/
- (Dungan)
  - Cyrillic and Wiktionary: дёйү (di͡oyü, III-I)
  - Sinological IPA ^(key): /tiɔː⁴⁴ y²⁴/
  (Note: Dungan pronunciation is currently experimental and may be inaccurate.)
Cantonese
- (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)⁺
  - Jyutping: diu³ jyu^4-2 / diu³ jyu⁴
  - Yale: diu yú / diu yùh
  - Cantonese Pinyin: diu³ jy^4-2 / diu³ jy⁴
  - Guangdong Romanization: diu³ yu^4-2 / diu³ yu⁴
  - Sinological IPA ^(key): /tiːu̯³³ jyː²¹⁻³⁵/, /tiːu̯³³ jyː²¹/
Gan
- (Nanchang)
  - Wiktionary: dieu⁴ nyie⁴
  - Sinological IPA ^(key): /tiɛu³⁵ n̠ʲie³⁵/
Hakka
- (Sixian, incl. Miaoli and Neipu)
  - Pha̍k-fa-sṳ: tiau-ǹg
  - Hakka Romanization System: diau ng^ˇ
  - Hagfa Pinyim: diau⁴ ng²
  - Sinological IPA: /ti̯au̯⁵⁵ ŋ̍¹¹/
Eastern Min
- (Fuzhou)
  - Bàng-uâ-cê: diéu-ngṳ̀
  - Sinological IPA ^(key): /tieu²¹³⁻⁵⁵ ŋy⁵³/
Southern Min
- (Hokkien: Xiamen, General Taiwanese)
  - Pe̍h-ōe-jī: tiò-hî
  - Tâi-lô: tiò-hî
  - Phofsit Daibuun: dioirhii
  - IPA (Xiamen): /tio²¹⁻⁵³ hi²⁴/
  - IPA (Kaohsiung): /tiɤ²¹⁻⁴¹ hi²³/
- (Hokkien: General Taiwanese)
  - Pe̍h-ōe-jī: tiò-hû
  - Tâi-lô: tiò-hû
  - Phofsit Daibuun: dioirhuu
  - IPA (Taipei): /tio¹¹⁻⁵³ hu²⁴/
- (Teochew)
  - Peng'im: dion³ he⁵
  - Pe̍h-ōe-jī-like: tiòⁿ hṳ̂
  - Sinological IPA ^(key): /tĩõ²¹³⁻⁵⁵ hɯ⁵⁵/

Middle Chinese: tewH ngjo

Rime
Character	釣	魚
Reading #	1/1	1/1
Initial (聲)	端 (5)	疑 (31)
Final (韻)	蕭 (93)	魚 (22)
Tone (調)	Departing (H)	Level (Ø)
Openness (開合)	Open	Open
Division (等)	IV	III
Fanqie	多嘯切	語居切
Baxter	tewH	ngjo
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang Shangfang	/teu^H/	/ŋɨʌ/
Pan Wuyun	/teu^H/	/ŋiɔ/
Shao Rongfen	/teu^H/	/ŋiɔ/
Edwin Pulleyblank	/tɛw^H/	/ŋɨə̆/
Li Rong	/teu^H/	/ŋiɔ/
Wang Li	/tieu^H/	/ŋĭo/
Bernard Karlgren	/tieu^H/	/ŋi̯wo/
Expected Mandarin Reflex	diào	yú
Expected Cantonese Reflex	diu³	jyu⁴

Old Chinese
(Baxter–Sagart): /*[t]ˤewk-s [r.ŋ]a/

(Zhengzhang): /*pleːwɢs ŋa/

Baxter–Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character	釣	魚
Reading #	1/1	1/1
Modern Beijing (Pinyin)	diào	yú
Middle Chinese	‹ tew^H ›	‹ 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	釣	魚
Reading #	1/1	1/1
No.	11183	15939
Phonetic component	勺	魚
Rime group	豹	魚
Rime subdivision	2	0
Corresponding MC rime	弔	魚
Old Chinese	/*pleːwɢs/	/*ŋa/

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