Fish says 鱼 (hoping for correction) When I was at work in a supermarket yesterday, a thought came to my mind about the Chinese word 鱼 (fish, yú). My assignment was serving customers who want to buy living carps. There stood a big tank which I had to catch the fishes from. So I saw a lot of carp and noticed that these animals form their mouth as if they want to say 'ǘ'. I got the idea that this may be a sound-imitative word like 猫 (māo). Per se I didn't hear the sound 'ü' from any of the fishes, but I really felt that some of them form their mouth like we pronounce 'ü'. Except of this, it mostly was a bad day. Here’s a carp above. Its mouth forms ‘ü’....may be. :)