鰯
鰯 — yak
Meaning and reading as used in Korean (hanja).
- Korean reading
- 멸치 약, 정어리 약
- Romanization
- yak
- English
- a sardine
- Mandarin
- ruò
- Japanese kun'yomi
- いわし
- Japanese usage
- Jinmeiyō kanji
- Strokes
- 21
- Radical
- 魚 (195, 10 residual)
- Unicode
- U+9C2F
Japanese words with 鰯
- 鰯いわし pilchard (esp. Japanese pilchard, Sardinops melanostictus); sardine
- 鰯雲いわしぐも cirrocumulus cloud; mackerel sky
- 畳鰯たたみいわし sheet of dried sardines
- 赤鰯あかいわし pickled sardines; dried sardines; red sardines
- 干鰯ほしか fertilizer made from dried sardines
- 鰯鯨いわしくじら sei whale (Balaenoptera borealis)
- 真鰯まいわし Japanese pilchard (Sardinops melanostictus); Japanese sardine
- 唐鰯からいわし Hawaiian ladyfish (Elops hawaiensis)
- 外鰯そといわし bonefish (Albula vulpes); banana fish; ladyfish
- 裸鰯はだかいわし lantern fish (any fish of family Myctophidae, esp. Watase's lanternfish, Diaphus watasei)
- 鰯油いわしゆ pilchard oil; sardine oil
- 鰯節いわしぶし dried, smoked pilchard; shavings from dried, smoked pilchard
Japanese data from EDRDG KANJIDIC2 and JMdict (CC BY-SA 4.0)