鯛

Meaning

鯛 centers on a specific prized fish: the sea bream, often called red snapper in English. Both given meanings refer to the same fish, with "red snapper" being a common market name for certain sea bream species.

• 鯛たい
  N1

  sea bream (esp. Pagrus major); porgy

• 真鯛まだい

  red sea bream (Pagrus major); Japanese sea bream; red tai; porgy

• 血鯛ちだい

  crimson sea bream (Evynnis japonica)

• 黒鯛くろだい

  black porgy (Acanthopagrus schlegeli)

• 金目鯛きんめだい

  splendid alfonsino (Beryx splendens)

• にらみ鯛にらみだい

  decorative fish displayed during festive occasions

• スペイン鯛スペインだい

  red sea bream (Pagellus bogaraveo)

• ヨーロッパ平鯛ヨーロッパへだい

  gilt-head bream (Sparus aurata)

• 一等鯛いっとうだい

  North Pacific squirrelfish (Sargocentron spinosissimum)

• 三筋琉球雀鯛みすじりゅうきゅうすずめだい

  whitetail dascyllus (Dascyllus aruanus); humbug dascyllus; banded dascyllus; white-tailed damselfish

• 千年鯛せんねんだい

  emperor red snapper (Lutjanus sebae); bourgeois red snapper; bourgeois fish

• 四條笛鯛よすじふえだい

  bluestripe snapper (Lutjanus kasmira); bluestripe seaperch

• 壺鯛つぼだい

  Japanese armorhead (Pentaceros japonicus)

• 天竺鯛てんじくだい

  vertical-striped cardinalfish (Apogon lineatus); Indian perch; coral fish

• 夷鯛えびすだい

  Japanese soldierfish (Ostichthys japonicus)

• 奄美雀鯛あまみすずめだい

  stout chromis (Chromis chrysura)

• 姫鯛ひめだい

  lavender jobfish (Pristipomoides sieboldii); flower jobfish

• 寒鯛かんだい

  Asian sheepshead wrasse (Semicossyphus reticulatus)

• 巾着鯛きんちゃくだい

  bluestriped angelfish (Chaetodontoplus septentrionalis)

• 平鯛へだい

  silver sea bream (Sparus sarba)

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