Translingual

Han character

鮏 (radical 195 魚+5, 16 strokes, cangjie input 弓火竹手一 (NFHQM), composition ⿰魚生)

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References

• KangXi: page 1468, character 11
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 46071
• Dae Jaweon: page 2001, character 17
• Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 7, page 4681, character 12
• Unihan data for U+9B8F

Chinese

Glyph origin

Pronunciation

Definitions

鮏

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References

• Dictionary of Chinese Character Variants (教育部異體字字典)

Japanese

Kanji

(uncommon “Hyōgai” kanji)

Readings

• Goon: しょう (shō)
• Kan’on: せい (sei)
• Kun: なまぐさい (鮏い, namagusai) (rare), なまぐさ (namagusa) (rare), さけ (sake), しゃけ (sake)

Etymology

Originally a borrowing from Ainu サㇰイベ ‎(sak ibe, “salmon”, literally “summer + eat”, in reference to how the fish would be caught and eaten in the summer), or possible alternative unattested compound サㇰエㇷ゚ ‎(sak ep, literally “summer + food”).

Pronunciation

• Kun'yomi
• (Tokyo) さ​け [sáꜜkè] (Atamadaka - [1])^[1][2]
• IPA^(key): [sa̠ke̞]

Alternative forms

• 鮭 (most common)

Noun

鮏 ‎(hiragana さけ, romaji sake)

1. Alternative spelling of 鮭: salmon

Etymology 2

Originally a borrowing from Ainu シャケンベ ‎(shakembe)^[3], apparently as a dialectal variation or corruption of Ainu サㇰイベ ‎(sak ibe, “salmon”, literally “summer + eat”), or of possible alternative unattested compound サㇰエㇷ゚ ‎(sak ep, literally “summer + food”).

Pronunciation

• Kun'yomi
• (Tokyo) しゃ​け [sháꜜkè] (Atamadaka - [1])^[1][2]
• IPA^(key): [ɕa̠ke̞]

Alternative forms

• 鮭 (most common)

Noun

鮏 ‎(hiragana しゃけ, romaji shake)

1. Alternative spelling of 鮭: salmon

Etymology 3

Root stem of adjective 生臭い, 腥い ‎(namagusai, “smelling of fish, meat, or blood; stinky, bad-smelling”),^[3][1] itself a compound of 生 ‎(nama, “raw, uncooked”) +‎ 臭い ‎(kusa, “stink, bad smell”, root stem of 臭い kusai, “stinky, bad-smelling”). The kusa changes to gusa as an instance of rendaku (連濁). .

Pronunciation

• Kun'yomi
• (Tokyo) なまぐさ [nàmágúsá] (Heiban - [0])^[1]
• IPA^(key): [na̠ma̠ɡ̃ɯᵝsa̠]

Alternative forms

• 生臭 (most common), 腥 (rare)

Noun

鮏 ‎(hiragana なまぐさ, romaji namagusa)

1. a smell of fish, meat, or blood
2. a stink, a bad smell

References

1. 1 2 3 4 2006, 大辞林 (Daijirin), Third Edition (in Japanese), Tōkyō: Sanseidō, ISBN 4-385-13905-9
2. 1 2 1997, 新明解国語辞典 (Shin Meikai Kokugo Jiten), Fifth Edition (in Japanese), Tōkyō: Sanseidō, ISBN 4-385-13143-0
3. 1 2 1988, 国語大辞典（新装版） (Kokugo Dai Jiten, Revised Edition) (in Japanese), Tōkyō: Shogakukan