鰊
鰊 — ryeon
Meaning and reading as used in Korean (hanja).
- Korean reading
- 고기 이름 련
- Romanization
- ryeon
- English
- a herring
- Mandarin
- liàn
- Japanese on'yomi
- レン
- Japanese kun'yomi
- にしん
- Japanese usage
- Not on either list
- Strokes
- 20
- Radical
- 魚 (195, 9 residual)
- Unicode
- U+9C0A
Japanese words with 鰊
- 鰊にしん Pacific herring (Clupea pallasii)
- 鰊粕にしんかす dried and pressed boiled herring (used as fertilizer)
- 鰊曇りにしんぐもり cloudy weather near Hokkaido during the herrings season (from the third to the sixth lunar month)
- 鰊蕎麦にしんそば soba in hot broth, topped with a salty-sweet dried herring
Japanese data from EDRDG KANJIDIC2 and JMdict (CC BY-SA 4.0)