The pronunciation of herring is [fēi].

Herring, a second-level Chinese character, is pronounced herring (fēi). (Herring) The body is laterally flat and long, about twenty centimeters long, with a greenish-black dorsum and silvery-white belly. One of the world's important economic fish. Also called herring. The name of the fish. Also called 鰊. A food fish (Atlantic herring Clupea harengus), body length of about 0.3 meters, especially in the North Atlantic warm and cooler waters, swimming in large groups near the shore to spawn.

Herring Introduction:

Scleractinian, Herringiformes, Herringidae. Also known as herring, for the ocean precious small economic fish, with cold water migration habits. Fish body is lateral compression type, 20~40cm long, fish head is smaller, fish eyes are larger, mouth large gill slits are longer, scales are tiny, lateral line is more straight, fish body color is greenish-blue, dorsal fin, anal fin is more symmetrical, caudal peduncle is thinner, the fish's caudal fin is wedge shaped.

The flesh of herring is white in color, firm in texture, and tasty in taste, and is generally used to make salted fish products suitable for barbecue use. China's main places of origin are Qingdao and Yantai in Shandong Province and Dalian in Liaoning Province, and the catching season is mainly concentrated in October to November.

Many herring have no teeth or small, weak teeth. Its swim bladder is connected to the stomach, so it can store spare gas in the stomach. Two projections of the swim bladder are connected to the cartilaginous sacs of the left and right ears, replacing the fish's ear drums. These fish prefer to live in schools and feed on small plankton. Most herring take long swims of up to 3,000 kilometers, returning seasonally to fatten, spawn, or winter, as the black-backed western herring of the Caspian Sea does.