Kanji1 / 19
鯨 kanji
whale
- JLPT level
- N1 (unofficial)
- First appears in
- N1 vocabulary
- Strokes
- 19
- School grade
- Secondary school
On readings
ゲイ
Kun readings
くじら
Words with 鯨
LevelWord & meaningActions
- N1捕鯨Popularwhaling; whale hunting; whale fishing
- —鯨肉Popularwhale meat
- —鯨飲drinking hard; drinking like a fish
- —鯨油whale oil
- —鯨波raging waves; battle cry; war cry
- —鯨脂blubber
- —巨鯨huge whale
- —鯨骨whale bone
- —鯨類cetaceans
- —鯨蝋spermaceti (waxy substance found in the head cavities of sperm whales)
- —白鯨Moby-Dick (1851 novel by Herman Melville)
- —酔鯨Suigei
- —捕鯨船whaling ship; whaler; whale catcher
- —捕鯨砲(whaling) harpoon gun
- —反捕鯨opposition to whaling; anti-whaling
- —鯨脳油spermaceti
- —鯨飲馬食drinking like a fish and eating like a horse; eating mountains of food and drinking oceans of liquor
- —捕鯨問題whaling controversy; whaling issue
- —商業捕鯨commercial whaling
- —白鯨伝説The Legend of the Moby Dick (television series)