鰯

Translingual

Etymology

魚 (“fish”) + 弱 – a kind of fish. A Japanese kokuji coined in the Nara period.

Han character

鰯 (radical 195 魚+10, 21 strokes, cangjie input 弓火弓一一 (NFNMM), composition ⿰魚弱)

1. sardine

References

• KangXi: not present, would follow page 1476, character 25
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 46413
• Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 7, page 4708, character 9
• Unihan data for U+9C2F

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Japanese

Noun

鰯 (hiragana いわし, romaji iwashi)

1. a sardine (a fish)

Derived terms

• 鰯雲 (いわしぐも, iwashigumo)

Kanji

鰯

1. sardine

Readings

• Kun: いわし (iwashi)

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Korean

Hanja

鰯 (hangeul 약, revised yak, McCune-Reischauer yak, Yale yak)

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Mandarin

Hanzi

鰯 (pinyin ruò (ruo4), Wade-Giles jo⁴)