鰹
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See also 鲣
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[edit] Translingual
[edit] Etymology
Phono-semantic compound (形聲): semantic 魚 + phonetic 堅.
[edit] Han character
鰹 (radical 195 魚+11, 22 strokes, cangjie input 弓火尸水土 (NFSEG), four-corner 27314)
- a skipjack tuna, a bonito, Katsuwonus pelamis (Japanese)
- a great eel (Classical Chinese)
- a kind of shark
[edit] References
- KangXi: page 1477, character 2
- Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 46437
- Dae Jaweon: page 2008, character 28
- Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 7, page 4709, character 14
- Unihan data for U+9C39
[edit] Cantonese
[edit] Hanzi
鰹 (simplified 鲣, Yale gin1)
[edit] Japanese
[edit] Kanji
[edit] Readings
[edit] Etymology
/katuwo/ > /katuo/
From compound of 堅 (kata, "hard") + 魚 (uo, "fish"), from the long-standing practice of drying lower-grade tuna into hard blocks.
Alternately, from compound of 搗つ (katsu, "to subdue by striking") + 魚 (uo, "fish"), from the way in which these fish were subdued when catching them.
[edit] Noun
鰹 (hiragana かつお, romaji katsuo)
[edit] Korean
[edit] Hanja
鰹 (hangeul 견, revised gyeon, McCune-Reischauer kyŏn, Yale kyen)
[edit] Mandarin
[edit] Hanzi
鰹 (simplified 鲣, pinyin jiān (jian1), Wade-Giles chien1)
[edit] Vietnamese
[edit] Han character
鰹 (kiên)
