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Chinese symbol for “barracuda”

梭鱼
suō yú
Traditional: 梭魚
barracuda

The closest CC-CEDICT match for barracuda is 梭鱼 (suō yú), defined as: barracuda.

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Characters and stroke order

梭 suō
a weaver's shuttle; to go back and forth
radical 75 ⽊ · 11 strokes
鱼 yú
fish
radical 195 ⿂ · 8 strokes

Traditional forms

Other Chinese words for “barracuda”

WordPinyinMeaning
梭子鱼 (梭子魚)suō zi yúbarracuda

Related words

Other words that share a character with 梭鱼.

WordPinyinMeaning
穿梭chuān suōto shuttle back and forth
太空梭tài kōng suōspace shuttle
梭哈suō hāfive-card stud (card game) (from English "show hand")
梭子suō zi(textiles) shuttle; cartridge clip
梭子鱼 (梭子魚)suō zi yúbarracuda
鱼类 (魚類)yú lèifishes
鲨鱼 (鯊魚)shā yúshark
钓鱼 (釣魚)diào yúto fish (with line and hook); to angle; (fig.) to entrap

See also: Japanese symbol for “barracuda”.

Data: CC-CEDICT (CC BY-SA 4.0); Unihan Database (Unicode License v3); Make Me a Hanzi (Arphic Public License (graphics.txt); LGPL-3.0-or-later (dictionary.txt)); wordfreq (CC BY-SA 4.0 (data)). Retrieved 2026-10-22.