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鰹 kanji
bonito
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ケン
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かつお
Words with 鰹
LevelWord & meaningActions
- —鰹skipjack tuna (Katsuwonus pelamis); oceanic bonito; victorfish
- —鰹節katsuobushi; pieces of sliced dried bonito
- —鰹木log on the roof of a shrine set perpendicular to the ridgepole
- —花鰹dried bonito shavings
- —初鰹the first bonito of the season
- —歯鰹striped bonito (Sarda orientalis); Mexican bonito
- —鰹鳥booby (esp. the brown booby, Sula leucogaster); gannet
- —縞鰹Pacific pomfret (Brama japonica)
- —秋鰹bonito caught in autumn
- —鰹鯨Eden's whale (Balaenoptera edeni); Bryde's whale
- —真魚鰹butterfish (any fish of family Stromateidae, esp. species Pampus punctatissimus); harvestfish; rudderfish
- —鰹節虫dermestid beetle
- —宗太鰹frigate tuna (Auxis spp.)
- —鰹だし(dried) bonito stock
- —猫に鰹節temptation one can't resist; setting a wolf to mind the sheep; trusting a cat with milk
- —姫鰹節虫black carpet beetle (Attagenus unicolor japonicus)
- —鰹の塩辛salted fermented bonito guts
- —鰹の烏帽子Portuguese man-of-war (Physalia physalis)
- —姫丸鰹節虫carpet beetle (Anthrenus verbasci)
- —白鰹鳥northern gannet (Morus bassanus)
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