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English Meanings:
noun
- righteye flounder (any fish of family Pleuronectidae)
うしのした
ushinoshita
expression, noun
Alternate Written Forms:
牛の舌
[うしのした]
ushinoshita
牛舌魚
[うしのした]
ushinoshita
English Meanings:
expression, noun
- cow's tongue
noun
- sole (any fish of the families Cynoglossidae and Soleidae)
Alternate Written Forms:
杜父魚
[かじか]
kajika
杜父魚
[とふぎょ]
tofugyo
English Meanings:
noun
- sculpin (any fish of family Cottidae, incl. the bullheads and the miller's-thumb)
- Japanese fluvial sculpin (Cottus pollux)
English Meanings:
noun
- young Japanese amberjack (Seriola quinqueradiata)
Alternate Written Forms:
銀宝
[ぎんぽ]
ginpo
English Meanings:
noun
- tidepool gunnel (Pholis nebulosa)
English Meanings:
noun
- coelacanth
Alternate Written Forms:
黒皮
[くろかわ]
kurokawa
English Meanings:
noun
- Indo-Pacific blue marlin (Makaira mazara)
Alternate Written Forms:
間八
[かんぱち]
kanpachi
勘八
[かんぱち]
kanpachi
English Meanings:
noun
- greater amberjack (Seriola dumerili); purplish amberjack; greater yellowtail
English Meanings:
noun
- piranha
English Meanings:
prefix
- tetra-
noun
- tetra (fish)
English Meanings:
noun
- flathead (esp. the bartailed flathead, Platycephalus indicus) (牛尾魚 is gikun)
Alternate Written Forms:
鮎魚女
[あいなめ]
ainame
鮎並
[あいなめ]
ainame
愛女
[あいなめ]
ainame
鮎並女
[あいなめ]
ainame
Irregular Kanji
English Meanings:
noun
- fat greenling (Hexagrammos otakii)
Alternate Written Forms:
魴鮄
[ほうぼう]
houbou
竹麦魚
[ほうぼう]
houbou
English Meanings:
noun
- red gurnard (Chelidonichthys spinosus); gurnet; sea robin
Alternate Written Forms:
蝶蝶魚
[ちょうちょううお]
chouchouuo
蝶々魚
[ちょうちょううお]
chouchouuo
English Meanings:
noun
- Oriental butterflyfish (Chaetodon auripes, species found mostly from Japan to Taiwan)
Alternate Written Forms:
飛び魚
[とびうお]
tobiuo
飛魚
[とびうお]
tobiuo
English Meanings:
noun
- flying fish (esp. the Japanese flying fish, Cypselurus agoo)
Alternate Written Forms:
楊子魚
[ようじうお]
youjiuo
English Meanings:
noun
- pipefish (esp. the seaweed pipefish, Syngnathus schlegeli)
Alternate Written Forms:
秋刀魚
[さんま]
sanma
English Meanings:
noun
- Pacific saury (Cololabis saira); mackerel pike
Alternate Written Forms:
梭子魚
[かます]
kamasu
魳
[かます]
kamasu
Outdated Kanji
魣
[かます]
kamasu
Outdated Kanji
English Meanings:
noun
- barracuda (Sphyraena spp.)
Alternate Written Forms:
鮟鱇
[あんこう]
ankou
English Meanings:
noun
- goosefish (any fish of family Lophiidae); monkfish; sea devil
- fool
- curved gutter
Alternate Written Forms:
小判鮫
[こばんざめ]
kobanzame
English Meanings:
noun
- remora; suckerfish; sharksucker (any fish of family Echeneidae)
- live sharksucker (Echeneis naucrates)