U+9BCE, 鯎
CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-9BCE

[U+9BCD]
CJK Unified Ideographs
[U+9BCF]

Translingual

Han character

(radical 195, +7, 18 strokes, cangjie input 弓火戈竹尸 (NFIHS), composition)

References

  • KangXi: not present, would follow page 1471, character 28
  • Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 46200
  • Hanyu Da Zidian: not present, would follow volume 7, page 4686, character 3
  • Unihan data for U+9BCE

Japanese

Kanji

(uncommon “Hyōgai” kanji)

Readings

  • Kun: うぐい (ugui, )うぐひ (ugufi, historical)

Etymology

ウグイ (ugui): a Japanese dace.

Possibly originally a compound of (u, cormorant) + 食い (kui, eating, gobbling).

Pronunciation

Alternative forms

Noun

(hiragana うぐい, katakana ウグイ, rōmaji ugui, historical hiragana うぐひ)

  1. the Japanese dace, also known as the big-scaled redfin: Tribolodon hakonensis, an edible fish in family Cyprinidae

Usage notes

As with many terms that name organisms, this term is often spelled in katakana, especially in biological contexts, as ウグイ.

Synonyms

References

  1. 2006, 大辞林 (Daijirin), Third Edition (in Japanese), Tōkyō: Sanseidō, →ISBN
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