Keyword
fish
Info
FrequencyTop 900-1000
Type
Kyōiku (2nd grade) 
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KankenLevel 9
Heisig183
Readings
うお
(26%)
(20%)
ぎょ
(12%)
こう
(9%)
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 (83 in total)
fresh
resurrect
gathering seafood
scaled
Used in vocabulary (431 in total)
small fish; small fry; (a) nobody; small fry; unimportant person
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.