"鯰" meaning in Japanese

See 鯰 in All languages combined, or Wiktionary

Character

Etymology: A 国字 (kokuji, “Japanese-coined character”), using the 魚 radical on the left for its meaning of “fish”, and 念 on the right for its phonetic value as a homophone of 粘 (nen, “sticky; slimy”). Etymology templates: {{m|ja|国字||Japanese-coined character|tr=kokuji}} 国字 (kokuji, “Japanese-coined character”), {{categorize|ja|Japanese-coined CJKV characters|sort=魚08}}, {{ja-etym-kokuji}} A 国字 (kokuji, “Japanese-coined character”), {{m|ja|魚}} 魚, {{m|ja|念}} 念, {{m|ja|粘||sticky; slimy|tr=nen}} 粘 (nen, “sticky; slimy”)
  1. a catfish Tags: Hyōgai, kanji, uncommon Categories (lifeform): Catfish
    Sense id: en-鯰-ja-character-kDJWRRiR Disambiguation of Catfish: 62 38 Categories (other): Japanese-coined CJKV characters used outside Japanese, Japanese terms with redundant transliterations, Japanese-coined CJKV characters, Uncommon kanji Disambiguation of Japanese-coined CJKV characters used outside Japanese: 0 12 42 46

Noun

IPA: [na̠ma̠zɨᵝ] Forms: 鯰 [canonical] (ruby: 鯰(なまず)), 鯰 [canonical] (ruby: 鯰(ナマズ)), namazu [romanization], namadu [romanization], なまづ [hiragana, historical]
Etymology: Possibly from 滑 (nama, “slippery, slimy”, possible ancient alternate for name reading) + 頭 (zu, “head”). Etymology templates: {{vern|Amur catfish}} Amur catfish, {{vern|Japanese catfish}} Japanese catfish, {{com|ja|滑|頭|pos1=possible ancient alternate for name reading|sort=なまず|t1=slippery, slimy|t2=head|tr1=nama|tr2=zu}} 滑 (nama, “slippery, slimy”, possible ancient alternate for name reading) + 頭 (zu, “head”) Head templates: {{ja-noun|なまず|ナマズ|hhira=なまづ}} 鯰(なまず) or 鯰(ナマズ) • (namazu) ^(←なまづ (namadu)?)
  1. an Amur catfish (Silurus asotus) Derived forms: 上がり鯰 (agarinamazu) (ruby: 上(あ), 鯰(なまず)), 痺鯰 (shibirenamazu) (ruby: 痺鯰(しびれなまず)), 電気鯰 (denkinamazu) (ruby: 電気鯰(でんきなまず)), 鯰尾 (namazuo) (ruby: 鯰尾(なまずお)), 鯰隈 (namazuguma) (ruby: 鯰隈(なまずぐま)), 鯰肌 (namazuhada) (ruby: 鯰肌(なまずはだ)), 鯰髭 (namazuhige) (ruby: 鯰髭(なまずひげ)), 鯰坊主 (namazubōzu) (ruby: 鯰坊主(なまずぼうず)), 瓢箪で鯰を押さえる (hyōtan de namazu o osaeru) (ruby: 瓢箪(ひょうたん), 鯰(なまず), 押(お))
    Sense id: en-鯰-ja-noun-wG0KXut9 Categories (other): Japanese-coined CJKV characters used outside Japanese, Japanese entries with incorrect language header, Japanese entries with language name categories using raw markup, Japanese links with redundant alt parameters, Japanese links with redundant wikilinks, Japanese terms with multiple readings, Japanese terms with non-redundant manual transliterations, Japanese terms with non-redundant non-automated sortkeys, Japanese terms with redundant sortkeys Disambiguation of Japanese-coined CJKV characters used outside Japanese: 0 12 42 46 Disambiguation of Japanese entries with incorrect language header: 8 92 Disambiguation of Japanese entries with language name categories using raw markup: 6 94 Disambiguation of Japanese links with redundant alt parameters: 10 90 Disambiguation of Japanese links with redundant wikilinks: 10 90 Disambiguation of Japanese terms with multiple readings: 20 80 Disambiguation of Japanese terms with non-redundant manual transliterations: 9 91 Disambiguation of Japanese terms with non-redundant non-automated sortkeys: 9 91 Disambiguation of Japanese terms with redundant sortkeys: 10 90

Alternative forms

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    "鯰"
  ],
  "section": "Japanese",
  "subsection": "noun",
  "title": "鯰",
  "trace": ""
}

This page is a part of the kaikki.org machine-readable Japanese dictionary. This dictionary is based on structured data extracted on 2024-05-10 from the enwiktionary dump dated 2024-05-02 using wiktextract (a644e18 and edd475d). The data shown on this site has been post-processed and various details (e.g., extra categories) removed, some information disambiguated, and additional data merged from other sources. See the raw data download page for the unprocessed wiktextract data.

If you use this data in academic research, please cite Tatu Ylonen: Wiktextract: Wiktionary as Machine-Readable Structured Data, Proceedings of the 13th Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC), pp. 1317-1325, Marseille, 20-25 June 2022. Linking to the relevant page(s) under https://kaikki.org would also be greatly appreciated.