smoked salmon; lox
Refers to salmon that has been smoked, often used in Western-style dishes. Lox is a specific type of cured salmon, but the term can cover both hot-smoked and cold-smoked varieties.
I had a bagel with smoked salmon and cream cheese for breakfast.
This smoked salmon is moist and delicious.
Standard kanji spelling for smoked salmon.
Variant spelling with okurigana; less common but still seen.
Mixed kana-kanji spelling; used when the first kanji is difficult or for clarity.
Compound of 燻し (ibushi, 'smoking', from verb 燻す) + 鮭 (sake, 'salmon'). The reading ざけ is a rendaku form of さけ.