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

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• 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–Macau)⁺
    • 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/

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• 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	/teuH/	/ŋɨʌ/
Pan Wuyun	/teuH/	/ŋiɔ/
Shao Rongfen	/teuH/	/ŋiɔ/
Edwin Pulleyblank	/tɛwH/	/ŋɨə̆/
Li Rong	/teuH/	/ŋiɔ/
Wang Li	/tieuH/	/ŋĭo/
Bernhard Karlgren	/tieuH/	/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	‹ 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	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)

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. (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)
6. (intransitive, Internet slang, figurative) to troll

Synonyms

• (to fish): 垂釣／垂钓 (chuídiào)
• (to troll): 引戰／引战 (yǐnzhàn)

Derived terms

• 太公釣魚 / 太公钓鱼
• 姜太公釣魚 / 姜太公钓鱼
• 釣魚執法 / 钓鱼执法 (diàoyú zhífǎ)
• 釣魚島 / 钓鱼岛 (Diàoyúdǎo)
• 釣魚竿 / 钓鱼竿 (diàoyúgān)
• 釣魚線 / 钓鱼线 (diàoyúxiàn)
• 釣魚翁 / 钓鱼翁
• 釣魚臺 / 钓鱼台 (Diàoyútái)
• 釣魚郎 / 钓鱼郎 (diàoyúláng)
• 釣魚鉤 / 钓鱼钩 (diàoyúgōu)
• 釣魚鳥 / 钓鱼鸟