左口魚

左口鱼
zuǒkǒuyú
flounder

CEDICT

Entry Composition

1 左 zuǒ
  1. left
  2. the Left (politics)
  3. east
  4. unorthodox
  5. queer
  6. wrong
  7. differing
  8. opposite
  9. variant of 佐 zuǒ
2 口 kǒu
  1. mouth
  2. classifier for things with mouths (people, domestic animals, cannons, wells etc)
  3. classifier for bites or mouthfuls
3 魚 yú used in the names of various aquatic animals that are not fish (including abalone 鮑魚 bàoyú, alligators and crocodiles 鱷魚 èyú and octopi 章魚 zhāngyú)

classifiers: 條, 尾

Related entries

鰈魚 diéyú
  1. flounder
  2. plaice
鰜 jiān
  1. flounder
  2. flatfish
比目魚 bǐmùyú
  1. flatfish
  2. flounder
鰈 dié
  1. flatfish
  2. flounder
  3. sole