Translingual

Han character

鰯 (radical 195 魚+10, 21 strokes, cangjie input 弓火弓一一 (NFNMM), composition ⿰魚弱)

1. sardine

References

• KangXi: not present, would follow page 1476, character 25
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 46413
• Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 7, page 4708, character 9
• Unihan data for U+9C2F

Chinese

Glyph origin

魚 ‎(“fish”) + 弱 – a kind of fish. A Japanese kokuji coined in the Nara period.

Pronunciation

Definitions

鰯

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References

• (Cantonese) Jyutping Database (iso10646hk.net) - Cantonese Pronunciation List (Part 3), page 247

Japanese

鰯(iwashi)

Kanji

(“Jinmeiyō” kanji used for names)

1. sardine

Readings

• Kun: いわし (iwashi)

Pronunciation

• (Tokyo) いわし [ìwáshí] (Heiban - [0])^[1]
• IPA^(key): [iɰᵝa̠ɕi]

Noun

鰯 ‎(hiragana いわし, romaji iwashi)

1. a sardine (a fish)

Derived terms

• 鰯雲 (いわしぐも) ‎(iwashigumo)

Descendants

• Russian: иваси́ f ‎(ivasí)

References

1. ↑ 1998, NHK日本語発音アクセント辞典 (NHK Japanese Pronunciation Accent Dictionary) (in Japanese), Tōkyō: NHK, ISBN 978-4-14-011112-3

Korean

Hanja

鰯 • ‎(yak) (hangeul 약, revised yak, McCune-Reischauer yak, Yale yak)

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