Kanji1 / 11
魚 kanji
fish
- JLPT level
- N4 (unofficial)
- First appears in
- N3 vocabulary
- Strokes
- 11
- School grade
- Grade 2 (elementary school)
On readings
ギョ
Kun readings
うおさかな-ざかな
Words with 魚
LevelWord & meaningActions
- —降河魚catadromous fish (fish that migrates downstream, e.g. eel)
- —降流魚catadromous fish (fish that migrates downstream, e.g. eel)
- —昇流魚anadromous fish (fish that migrates upstream, e.g. salmon)
- —半魚人merman; half man-half fish
- —棘魚類acanthodians (extinct jawed fishes)
- —鹹水魚saltwater fish
- —鮮魚店fish dealer; fresh fish retailer; fishmonger
- —魚鱗癬ichthyosis
- —望遠魚telescopefish (Giganturidae spp., esp. species Gigantura chuni)
- —養殖魚farmed fish; farm-raised fish; cultivated fish; hatchery fish
- —魚眼石apophyllite; fish-eye stone
- —代用魚substitute fish; using an alternative fish variety instead of a traditional one
- —肉食魚carnivorous fish
- —巨大魚enormous fish
- —陸封魚landlocked fish
- —養魚家fish farmer; pisciculturist
- —魚卵石oolite; oolith
- —魚肉ソfish sausage
- —軟骨魚類cartilaginous fishes; chondrichthyans
- —沈魚落雁charms of a uniquely beautiful woman; (so beautiful that) fish stay on the bottom of water and flying wild geese fall from the sky in shame