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Kotomora

鰺

horse mackerel

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Readings

On'yomi

  • ソウ

Kun'yomi

  • あじ

Meaning

鰺 centers on a specific fish: the horse mackerel. It is a narrow, concrete term without broader abstract extensions.

Most common words using 鰺

  • 小鰺刺こあじさし

    little tern (the official bird of Chiba); sterna albifrons

  • 極鰺刺きょくあじさし

    Arctic tern (Sterna paradisaea)

  • 糸引鰺いとひきあじ

    African pompano (Alectis ciliaris)

  • 縞鰺しまあじ

    striped jack (Pseudocaranx dentex); white trevally

  • 鰺のたたきあじのたたき

    fresh scad

  • 鰺刺あじさし

    tern (esp. the common tern, Sterna hirundo)

Explore all words using 鰺 →

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Etymology

鰺 combines the fish radical 魚 with the phonetic component 參, which likely indicates the sound. The character was created to name the horse mackerel specifically.

Meaning mnemonic

The left side 魚 means fish, and the right side 參 looks like a complex net or trap. Picture a fish caught in an elaborate net: that's the horse mackerel.

Reading mnemonic

For ソウ, imagine the horse mackerel being sewn (ソウ) into a net: sew -> ソウ, and the fish is trapped inside the complex right component.