水清無魚 Save Sign in to save words Simplified: 水清无鱼 shuǐqīngwúyú ㄕㄨㄟˇ ㄑㄧㄥ ㄨˊ ㄩˊ lit. water that is too clean holds no fish (idiom) fig. one who is too severe has no friends Character by character 水(shuǐ)surname Shui 清(qīng)Qing (Wade-Giles: Ch'ing) dynasty of China 無(wú)not to have 魚(yú)surname Yu A Chinese word or character, or English Search Sources CC-CEDICT, CC BY-SA 4.0 pinyinjs, Apache-2.0