Chinese symbol for “minnows”
鲰
zōu
Traditional: 鯫
minnows; small fish
The closest CC-CEDICT match for minnows is 鲰 (zōu), defined as: minnows; small fish.
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Characters and stroke order
Traditional forms
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.