鯖

See also 鲭

Translingual

Han character

鯖 (radical 195 魚+8, 19 strokes, cangjie input 弓火手一月 (NFQMB), four-corner 2532₇)

1. mackerel

References

• KangXi: page 1472, character 3
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 46210
• Dae Jaweon: page 2004, character 16
• Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 7, page 4694, character 3
• Unihan data for U+9BD6

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Cantonese

Hanzi

鯖 (simplified 鲭, Yale ching1)

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Japanese

Kanji

鯖

Readings

• On: せい (sei)
• Kun: さば (saba)

Compounds

• 鯖を読む (さばをよむ, saba o yomu, “to manipulate figures”)

Noun

鯖 (hiragana さば, katakana サバ, romaji saba)

1. mackerel
2. (slang, computing) server (by abbreviation and punning on サーバ (sāba, “server”))

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Korean

鯖 : mackerel

鯡 : herring

Hanja

鯖 (hangeul 청, revised cheong, McCune-Reischauer ch'ŏng, Yale cheng)

1. (고등어) mackerel

Synonyms

• 鯖魚 (청어, cheong-eo)

See also

• 靑魚 (청어, cheong-eo) herring (鯡, 鯡魚)

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Mandarin

Hanzi

鯖 (simplified 鲭, pinyin qīng (qing1), Wade-Giles ch'ing¹)