烏賊

See also: 乌贼

Chinese

 
a crow; black; not; empty; void
thief
trad. (烏賊)
simp. (乌贼)
variant forms 烏鰂乌鲗

Pronunciation


Noun

烏賊

  1. cuttlefish (Classifier: )

Synonyms

Derived terms

  • 烏賊車乌贼车

See also


Japanese

Kanji in this term
Jinmeiyō Grade: S
jukujikun

Etymology

From Old Japanese. The kanji is jukujikun (熟字訓), from Chinese 烏賊.

Alternative forms

Pronunciation

Noun

烏賊 (hiragana いか, katakana イカ, rōmaji ika)

  1. a squid (sea animal), a cuttlefish

Derived terms

References

  1. 2006, 大辞林 (Daijirin), Third Edition (in Japanese), Tōkyō: Sanseidō, ISBN 4-385-13905-9
  2. 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
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