Is there a connection between the Chinese 鱼(fish, or yu) and ゆ(yu) looking like a fish?


I noticed this coincidence and I couldn't help wondering since other parts are
based off of Chinese(kanji)




No, it's a coincidence. ゆ is over a thousand years old and is thought to be
derived from 由. You can find a chart of the kanji that hiragana developed from
on [Wikipedia](https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E5%B9%B3%E4%BB%AE%E5%90%8D).

Mandarin _yú_ is more recent and corresponds to Japanese 魚 _gyo_ , both of
which developed from Middle Chinese _ngyo_ (where the digraph ‹ng› represents
the nasal velar sound [ŋ], as in English _ring_ ). At the time ゆ developed,
the sound was too different from _yu_ to make this kind of connection.




No, it's a coincidence. ゆ is over a thousand years old and is thought to be
derived from 由. You can find a chart of the kanji that hiragana developed from
on [Wikipedia](https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E5%B9%B3%E4%BB%AE%E5%90%8D).

Mandarin _yú_ is more recent and corresponds to Japanese 魚 _gyo_ , both of
which developed from Middle Chinese _ngyo_ (where the digraph ‹ng› represents
the nasal velar sound [ŋ], as in English _ring_ ). At the time ゆ developed,
the sound was too different from _yu_ to make this kind of connection.

