bā zhuǎ yú

Traditional: 八爪魚

八爪鱼 (bā zhuǎ yú) is a Chinese word meaning “octopus”.

Meanings

  1. 1octopus

Characters in 八爪鱼

八bā · eight爪zhǎo · foot of a bird or animal鱼yú · fish (CL:條|条[tiao2],尾[wei3])

Related words

鱼fish (CL:條|条[tiao2],尾[wei3])鱼surname Yu八eight王八softshell turtle鲨鱼shark钓鱼to fish (with line and hook); to angle胡说八道to talk rubbish八卦the eight divinatory trigrams of the Book of Changes 易經|易经[Yi4 jing1]乱七八糟(idiom) chaotic; in disorder; muddled鳄鱼alligator; crocodile (CL:條|条[tiao2])爪子(animal's) claw金枪鱼tuna

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