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Translingual

Han character

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

  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

Chinese

simp. and trad.

Glyph origin

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

Pronunciation


Definitions

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References


Japanese

鰯(iwashi)

Kanji

(“Jinmeiyō” kanji used for names)

  1. sardine

Readings

Kanji in this term
いわし
Jinmeiyō
kun'yomi

Pronunciation

Noun

(hiragana いわし, romaji iwashi)

  1. a sardine (a fish)

Derived terms

Descendants

References

  1. 1998, NHK日本語発音アクセント辞典 (NHK Japanese Pronunciation Accent Dictionary) (in Japanese), Tōkyō: NHK, ISBN 978-4-14-011112-3

Korean

Hanja

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

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