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Kanji Detail for 鰻 - "eel"

鰻

  • Meaning

    鰻 means "eel."

    1. Eel - A fish of the family Anguillidae with an elongated body covered in mucus.

  • Dictionary Citations

    The meaning above is based on the following sources:

    KANJIDIC2 A comprehensive Japanese-English kanji dictionary

    eel

    Unihan Unicode Han Database for CJK characters

    eel

    CC-CEDICT A Chinese-English dictionary

    (bound form) eel (Anguilla japonica)

    Make Me a Hanzi Open-source Chinese character data

    eel

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

    A fish name. Long body in a cylindrical shape. Tail is slightly flat. Very slimy. Fine scales and wide mouth. Greenish-black back. White-yellow belly. Colloquially called 鰻鱺 (eel).

  • Onyomi

    tip

    ban(バン) バン

    man(マン) マン

  • Kunyomi

    tip

    unagi(うなぎ) うなぎ

  • Strokes

    tip

    22 strokes

  • Radical

    tip

    魚 (uo・uohen・sakanahen)

  • Related Keywords

    eel fish

Sentences including 鰻

  • My hovercraft is full of eels.

  • Our sales performance is just skyrocketing.

  • Recently, the price of crude oil has shot up, and the cost of gasoline is going up.

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