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: 魚 京
Radical: 魚
Meaning: fish
Reading: うお
Frequency: 571
Alternative forms:
鯨肉 (ゲイニク) whale meat
鯨飲 (ゲイイン) drinking hard, drinking like a fish
酔鯨 (スイゲイ) Suigei
白鯨 (ハクゲイ) Moby-Dick (1851 novel by Herman Melville)
鯨 (くじら) whale (Cetacea spp.)
鯨肉 (げいにく) whale meat
タスマニア鯨 (タスマニアくじら) Shepherd's beaked whale (Tasmacetus shepherdi)
五島鯨 (ごとうくじら) larger whales of family Delphinidae (esp. the pilot whale or blackfish)