Kanji Detail for 鯖 - "black carp, hot pot, mackerel"

鯖

Non-Jōyō Kanji

Meaning
鯖 means "black carp, hot pot, mackerel."
1. Black carp - A freshwater fish of the family Cyprinidae.
2. Hot pot - A dish of fish, meat, and vegetables cooked together.
3. Mackerel - A fish of the family Scombridae (Japanese usage).
Dictionary Citations
The meaning above is based on the following sources:

KANJIDIC2 A comprehensive Japanese-English kanji dictionary

mackerel

Unihan Unicode Han Database for CJK characters

mackerel

CC-CEDICT A Chinese-English dictionary

mackerel

Make Me a Hanzi Open-source Chinese character data

mackerel

XSZD Xuéshēng Zìdiǎn (學生字典) - Student's Dictionary

A cooking method. Fish and meat combined together. Like today's mixed stew. In Han, Lou Hu once combined the delicacies given by the five Wang marquises into 鯖. It was called 五侯鯖 (Five Marquises' mixed fish). Found in "Miscellaneous Records of the Western Capital."
Onyomi

sei(せい)
Kunyomi

saba
Strokes

19 strokes
Radical

魚 (uo・uohen・sakanahen)
Related Keywords
black carp freshwater fish family cyprinidae hot pot dish meat vegetables cooked together mackerel scombridae