鰌

loach (fish)

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Readings

鰌 refers specifically to the loach, a small freshwater fish. The meaning is narrow and concrete, centered on this particular fish.

泥鰌どじょう
loach (any fish of family Cobitidae)
仏泥鰌ほとけどじょう
Japanese eight-barbel loach (Lefua echigonia)
台湾泥鰌たいわんどじょう
blotched snakehead (Channa maculata)
味女泥鰌あじめどじょう
Niwaella delicata (species of loach)
柳の下にいつも泥鰌はいないやなぎのしたにいつもどじょうはいない
a fox is not taken twice in the same snare; there are no birds in last year's nest; there aren't always loach under the willow tree; good luck does not always repeat itself
柳の下にいつも泥鰌はおらぬやなぎのしたにいつもどじょうはおらぬ
a fox is not taken twice in the same snare; there are no birds in last year's nest; there aren't always loaches under the willow tree
石泥鰌いしどじょう
Cobitis takatsuensis (species of loach)
縞泥鰌しまどじょう
Japanese striped loach (Cobitis biwae)

鰌 combines the fish radical 魚 with 酋, which likely provides the sound. The character was created to name the loach fish.

The left side is a fish 魚, and the right side 酋 looks like a container with a lid. Imagine a loach being kept in a special lidded container.

For シュ, picture a loach swimming into a shoe: shoe -> シュ, and the loach hides inside.