Character breakdown
Study each Hanzi separately, then return to the complete word so pronunciation, meaning, and movement stay connected.
How to learn 鳗鲡
Listen once without reading, repeat the pinyin with its tones, then write every character in sequence. Finally, recall the complete meaning instead of memorizing each character as an isolated translation.
When the word appears in a sentence, check whether its part of speech and meaning match the definition shown here. Chinese words can change nuance with context.
Words with the same characters
Compare how a familiar Hanzi changes meaning inside another word.
short-finned eel (Anguilla australis)
电鳗diàn mánelectric eel
鳗鱼mán yúeel
鲈鳗lú mán(Tw) giant mottled eel (Anguilla marmorata), aka swamp eel or marbled eel; (coll.) (alternative for the nearly homonymous 流氓[liu2 mang2]) gangster
盲鳗máng mánhagfish (jawless proto-fish of class Myxini)
八目鳗bā mù mánlamprey (jawless proto-fish of family Petromyzontidae)