鯎

鯎 U+9BCE, 鯎 CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-9BCE ← 鯍 [U+9BCD] CJK Unified Ideographs 鯏 → [U+9BCF]

Translingual

Han character

鯎 (Kangxi radical 195, 魚+7, 18 strokes, cangjie input 弓火戈竹尸 (NFIHS), composition ⿰魚成)

References

• Kangxi Dictionary: not present, would follow page 1471, character 28
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 46200
• Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): not present, would follow volume 7, page 4686, character 3
• Unihan data for U+9BCE

Japanese

Alternative forms

• ウグイ
• 石斑魚

Kanji

鯎

(uncommon “Hyōgai” kanji)

Readings

• Kun: うぐい (ugui, 鯎)^{←うぐひ (ugufi, 鯎, historical)}

Etymology

ウグイ (ugui): a Japanese dace.

Possibly originally a compound of 鵜 (u, “cormorant”) +‎ 食い (kui, “eating, gobbling”).

Pronunciation

• (Tokyo) うぐい [ùgúí] (Heiban – [0])
• IPA^(key): [ɯ̟ᵝɡɯ̟ᵝi]

Noun

鯎(うぐい) or 鯎(ウグイ) • (ugui) ^{←うぐひ (ugufi)?}

1. the Japanese dace, also known as the big-scaled redfin: Tribolodon hakonensis, an edible fish in family Cyprinidae

Usage notes

As with many terms that name organisms, this term is often spelled in katakana, especially in biological contexts (where katakana is customary), as ウグイ.

Synonyms

• 丸太(まるた) (maruta)