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鰐

鰐

See also: 鳄

Translingual

Han character

鰐 (radical 195 魚+9, 20 strokes, cangjie input 弓火口口尸 (NFRRS))

  1. alligator

References

  • KangXi: page 1475, character 1
  • Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 46337
  • Dae Jaweon: page 2006, character 28
  • Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 7, page 4701, character 18
  • Unihan data for U+9C10

Chinese

For pronunciation and definitions of 鰐 – see 鱷.
(This character, 鰐, is a variant form of 鱷.)

Japanese

Kanji

鰐

(uncommon “Hyōgai” kanji, shinjitai kanji, kyūjitai form 鱷)

  1. alligator, crocodile
  2. a shark or other large dangerous fish

Readings

Compounds

Etymology

鰐 (wani): a crocodile.
Kanji in this term
鰐
わに
Hyōgaiji
kun'yomi

From Old Japanese. Derivation uncertain. Appears in the Kojiki in ambiguous reference to a kind of sea creature (possibly sharks[1] or crocodiles). The sense of crocodile clearly appears in the Wamyō Ruijushō dictionary (938) with an explanation of “having four legs like a turtle and a three-foot mouth with sharp teeth.”

Various theories exist regarding the term's origin, such as an alteration of 鬼 ‎(oni, “demon, devil”), or an abbreviation of 海主 ‎(watanushi, “sea master, sea god”).

Pronunciation

Noun

鰐 ‎(hiragana わに, romaji wani)

  1. crocodilian (crocodile, alligator, gavial)
  2. (obsolete) a shark or other large and dangerous fish

Derived terms

Idioms

References

  1. 1 2 2006, 大辞林 (Daijirin), Third Edition (in Japanese), Tōkyō: Sanseidō, ISBN 4-385-13905-9
  • Shōjū; Kyōto Daigaku Bungakubu Kokugogaku Kokubungaku Kenkyūshitu (898–901) Shinsen Jikyō (Zōteiban) (in Japanese), Kyōto: Rinsen, ISBN 978-4-653-00029-7, published 15 December 1967.

Korean

Hanja

鰐 • ‎(ak) (hangeul 악, revised ak, McCune-Reischauer ak, Yale ak)

  1. (악어) crocodile, alligator

Synonyms

Compounds

See also

Mandarin

Hanzi

鰐 ‎(simplified 鳄, Pinyin è (e4), xǐ (xi3), Wade-Giles o4, hsi3)

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