Kanji

Jōyō kanji, Taught in junior high

JLPT level: N1

1486 of 2500 most used kanji in newspapers

Stroke count: 19

Meaning: whale

Kunyomi: くじら

Onyomi: ゲイ

Composition:

Radical

Radical:

Meaning: fish

Examples

Onyomi Examples

ゲイニク whale meat

ゲイイン drinking hard, drinking like a fish

ハクゲイ white whale, Moby Dick

反捕 ハンホゲイ opposition to whaling, anti-whaling

Kunyomi Examples

くじら whale (Cetacea spp.)

げいにく whale meat

タスマニア タスマニアくじら Shepherd's beaked whale (Tasmacetus shepherdi)

五島 ごとうくじら larger whales of family Delphinidae (esp. the pilot whale or blackfish)