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鯎
鯎
Translingual
Han character
鯎 (radical 195 魚+7, 18 strokes, cangjie input 弓火戈竹尸 (NFIHS), composition ⿰魚成)
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References
- KangXi: not present, would follow page 1471, character 28
- Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 46200
- Hanyu Da Zidian: not present, would follow volume 7, page 4686, character 3
- Unihan data for U+9BCE
Japanese
Kanji
鯎
Readings
Etymology
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ウグイ (ugui): a Japanese dace.
Possibly originally a compound of 鵜 (u, “cormorant”) + 食い (kui, “eating, gobbling”).
Pronunciation
Alternative forms
Noun
鯎 (hiragana うぐい, katakana ウグイ, romaji ugui, historical hiragana うぐひ)
- 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 in biological contexts, as ウグイ.
Synonyms
- 丸太 (maruta)