鰹
鰹 — gyeon
Meaning and reading as used in Korean (hanja).
- Korean reading
- 큰 가물치 견, 물치 견, 강고도리 견
- Romanization
- gyeon
- English
- skipjack, bonito
- Mandarin
- jiān
- Japanese on'yomi
- ケン
- Japanese kun'yomi
- かつお
- Japanese usage
- Not on either list
- Strokes
- 22
- Radical
- 魚 (195, 11 residual)
- Unicode
- U+9C39
Japanese words with 鰹
- 鰹カツオ skipjack tuna (Katsuwonus pelamis); oceanic bonito; victorfish
- 鰹節かつおぶし katsuobushi; pieces of sliced dried bonito
- 鰹木かつおぎ log on the roof of a shrine set perpendicular to the ridgepole
- 花鰹はながつお dried bonito shavings
- 初鰹はつがつお the first bonito of the season
- 歯鰹はがつお striped bonito (Sarda orientalis); Mexican bonito
- 鰹鳥かつおどり booby (esp. the brown booby, Sula leucogaster); gannet
- 縞鰹しまがつお Pacific pomfret (Brama japonica)
- 秋鰹あきがつお bonito caught in autumn
- 鰹鯨かつおくじら Eden's whale (Balaenoptera edeni); Bryde's whale
- 真魚鰹まながつお butterfish (any fish of family Stromateidae, esp. species Pampus punctatissimus); harvestfish; rudderfish
- 鰹節虫かつおぶしむし dermestid beetle
Japanese data from EDRDG KANJIDIC2 and JMdict (CC BY-SA 4.0)