山椒鱼 shānjiāoyú salamander Origin Definitions Defs Strokes Stroke Words Sentences Sents 山椒 shānjiāo Sichuan pepper (literary variant) the dried husk of the prickly ash berry, commonly used as a numbing spice in Chinese cuisine鱼 魚 yú nounverb aquatic animal used in the names of various aquatic or water-dwelling animals that are not biologically fish, such as 鲍鱼 bàoyú (abalone), 鳄鱼 èyú (crocodile), or 章鱼 zhāngyú (octopus)