魚心あれば水心

うおごころあればみずごころ

if you do a favor for somebody, you will get a return favor, if a fish is friendly toward water, water will be kind to the fish too, mutual back-scratching

水心あれば魚心

みずごころあればうおごころ

if you do a favor for somebody, you will get a return favor, if the water is kind to fish, the fish will be friendly toward water too, mutual back-scratching

魚心あれば水心あり

うおこころあればみずこころあり

if you do a favor for somebody, you will get a return favor, if a fish is friendly toward water, water will be kind to the fish too, you scratch my back and I'll scratch yours

魚

さかな うお

fish

魚汁

いしる いしり よしる よしり

fish sauce made of salted and fermented sardines, mackerel, or squid, a specialty of the Noto Peninsula of Ishikawa Prefecture

魚道

ぎょどう

path taken by school of fish, fish ladder, fishway

鮮魚

せんぎょ

fresh fish

煮魚

にざかな

boiled fish

金魚

きんぎょ

goldfish

素魚

しろうお シロウオ

ice goby (Leucopsarion petersii)

魚卵

ぎょらん

fish eggs, roe, hard roe

公魚

わかさぎ ワカサギ

Japanese pond smelt (Hypomesus nipponensis)

魚形

ぎょけい

fish-shaped, fish-like, pisciform

魚信

ぎょしん さかなしん

bite (of a fish on a hook), strike

魚板

ぎょばん

struck like a gong at temple to indicate time of day

魚子

decorating a metal surface with small dots resembling fish eggs

底魚

そこうお

bottom-dwelling fish, demersal fish

成魚

せいぎょ

adult fish

肺魚

はいぎょ

lungfish