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Kanji Detail for 鵜 - "cormorant"
鵜
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Meaning
鵜 means "cormorant." Also associated with pelican.
Cormorant - A diving bird used in fishing.
Pelican - A large water bird.
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Tattoo check: 鵜
- Verified meaning: cormorant
- Jinmeiyō kanji — officially approved for use in Japanese given names
- Used in real Japanese given names (read う)
- Also carries these associations: pelican
A single kanji rarely maps one-to-one onto an English word. Read the meanings and associations above as a set — a character that fits the dictionary definition can still carry a connotation you did not intend.
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Name readings of 鵜
Surnames 鵜(う)
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Dictionary Citations
The meaning above is based on the following sources:
KANJIDIC2 A comprehensive Japanese-English kanji dictionary
cormorant
Unihan Unicode Han Database for CJK characters
pelican
CC-CEDICT A Chinese-English dictionary
used in 鵜鶘|鹈鹕[ti2 hu2]
Make Me a Hanzi Open-source Chinese character data
pelican
XSZD Xuéshēng Zìdiǎn (學生字典) - Student's Dictionary
鵜鶘 (pelican). A water bird. Gray-white color. Like a gray ■. When old, gradually becomes reddish. Small head. Long beak. Has a pouch under the jaw. When it catches fish, it stores them there. Short feet. Fishermen often raise them. Colloquially called 淘河.
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Onyomi
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Kunyomi
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Strokes
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Radical
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Related Keywords
Sentences including 鵜
ニュースを鵜呑みにするな。
Don't believe everything you hear on the news.
He was looking for it like a hunting dog.
Don't take gossip at face value.
Why do you blindly accept what others say?
I think you should take it all with a pinch of salt.
You mustn't swallow unreliable information that's on the Web.