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The Kanji Map

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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

鯨

Radical

Radical: 魚

Meaning: fish

Reading: うお

Frequency: 571

Alternative forms:

(alt radical position hen)

魚

Examples

Onyomi Examples

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)

Kunyomi Examples

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)

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