鰹

Meaning

鰹 refers specifically to the bonito fish, a type of tuna-like fish important in Japanese cuisine.

• 鰹かつお

  skipjack tuna (Katsuwonus pelamis); oceanic bonito; victorfish

• 鰹節かつおぶし

  katsuobushi; pieces of sliced dried bonito

• 初鰹はつがつお

  the first bonito of the season

• 姫丸鰹節虫ひめまるかつおぶしむし

  carpet beetle (Anthrenus verbasci)

• 姫鰹節虫ひめかつおぶしむし

  black carpet beetle (Attagenus unicolor japonicus)

• 宗太鰹そうだがつお

  frigate tuna (Auxis spp.)

• 歯鰹はがつお

  striped bonito (Sarda orientalis); Mexican bonito

• 猫に鰹節ねこにかつおぶし

  temptation one can't resist; setting a wolf to mind the sheep; trusting a cat with milk

• 真魚鰹まながつお

  butterfish (any fish of family Stromateidae, esp. species Pampus punctatissimus); harvestfish; rudderfish

• 秋鰹あきがつお

  bonito caught in autumn

• 縞鰹しまがつお

  Pacific pomfret (Brama japonica)

• 花鰹はながつお

  dried bonito shavings

• 鰹だしかつおだし

  (dried) bonito stock

• 鰹の塩辛かつおのしおから

  salted fermented bonito guts

• 鰹の烏帽子かつおのえぼし

  Portuguese man-of-war (Physalia physalis)

• 鰹木かつおぎ

  log on the roof of a shrine set perpendicular to the ridgepole

• 鰹節虫かつおぶしむし

  dermestid beetle

• 鰹鯨かつおくじら

  Eden's whale (Balaenoptera edeni); Bryde's whale

• 鰹鳥かつおどり

  booby (esp. the brown booby, Sula leucogaster); gannet

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