Kanji 魚 Words: Meanings and Readings, Page 4

毒魚

どくぎょ

poisonous fish

鳶飛魚躍

えんぴぎょやく

Heaven's will that all of creation shall follow their original natures and live freely

呑舟の魚

どんしゅうのうお

fish large enough to swallow a whole boat

軟骨魚綱

なんこつぎょこう

Chondrichthyes (class comprising cartilaginous fishes)

軟骨魚類

なんこつぎょるい

cartilaginous fishes

肉食魚

にくしょくぎょ

carnivorous fish

日本魚類学会

にっぽんぎょるいがっかい

Ichthyological Society of Japan

年魚

ねんぎょ

salmon

年取り魚

としとりざかな

fish served with white rice on New Year's eve

芭蕉梶木

ばしょうかじき

Indo-Pacific sailfish (Istiophorus platypterus)

肺魚

はいぎょ

lungfish

白魚

しらうお

icefish (Salangidae spp., esp. the Japanese icefish, Salangichthys microdon)

白身魚

しろみざかな

white fish

箱根山椒魚

はこねさんしょううお

Japanese clawed salamander (Onychodactylus japonicus)

半魚人

はんぎょじん

merman

斑山椒魚

ぶちさんしょううお

buchi salamander (Hynobius naevius)

斑紙魚

まだらしみ

firebrat (species of bristletail, Thermobia domestica)

板皮魚類

ばんぴぎょるい

placoderms (extinct fishes of class Placodermi)

飛び魚の子

とびうおのこ

flying fish roe

飛魚

とびうお

flying fish (esp. the Japanese flying fish, Cypselurus agoo)

飛騨山椒魚

ひださんしょううお

Hida salamander (Hynobius kimurae)

姫虎魚

ひめおこぜ

grey stingfish (Minous monodactylus)

姫沙魚

ひめはぜ

sharp-nosed sand goby (Favonigobius gymnauchen)

氷下魚

こまい

fish caught under ice

氷魚

ひうお

whitebait

不思議魚

ふしぎうお

gibberfish (Gibberichthys pumilus)

富魚

とみよ

Amur stickleback (Pungitius sinensis)

浮き魚

うきうお

fish which lives close to the surface

平目

ひらめ

flounder (esp. the large-tooth flounders of family Paralichthyidae, but also lefteye flounders of family Bothidae)

坊主沙魚

ぼうずはぜ

Sicyopterus japonicus (species of goby)

望遠魚

ぼうえんぎょ

telescopefish (Giganturidae spp., esp. species Gigantura chuni)

北極岩魚

ほっきょくいわな

arctic char (Salvelinus alpinus)

墨魚

ぼくぎょ

cuttlefish

翻車魚

まんぼう

ocean sunfish (Mola mola)

網呑舟の魚を漏らす

あみどんしゅうのうおをもらす

the law has holes large enough for the most wicked men to slip through

木に縁って魚を求む

きによってうおをもとむ

to be unable to accomplish something because one has chosen the wrong method

木に縁りて魚を求む

きによりてうおをもとむ

to be unable to accomplish something because one has chosen the wrong method

木魚

もくぎょ

fish gong

木登り魚

きのぼりうお

climbing perch (esp. of genus Anabas)

目梶木

めかじき

swordfish (Xiphias gladius)

柳葉魚

シシャモ

shishamo smelt (Spirinchus lanceolatus)

油女

あぶらめ

fat greenling (Hexagrammos otakii)

勇魚

いさな

whale

遊魚

ゆうぎょ

fish swimming about in water

楊子魚

ようじうお

pipefish (esp. the seaweed pipefish, Syngnathus schlegeli)

葉鰧

はおこぜ

Hypodytes rubripinnis (species of waspfish)

養魚

ようぎょ

fish breeding

養魚家

ようぎょか

fish farmer

養魚場

ようぎょじょう

fish hatchery

養魚池

ようぎょち

fish-breeding pond

養殖魚

ようしょくぎょ

farmed fish

翼沙魚

つばさはぜ

loach goby (Rhyacichthys aspro)

雷魚

らいぎょ

blotched snakehead (Channa maculata)

落ち魚

おちうお

dead fish

陸封魚

りくふうぎょ

landlocked fish

龍魚

りゅうぎょ

dragon-like cryptid fish with many whiskers and no bones (likely a sturgeon)

冷凍魚

れいとうぎょ

refrigerated fish

魯魚の誤り

ろぎょのあやまり

miswriting a word

魯魚亥豕

ろぎょがいし

miswriting a word

魯魚章草

ろぎょしょうそう

miswriting a word

狼魚

おおかみうお

Bering wolffish (Anarhichas orientalis)

鰐魚

がくぎょ

crocodile

俎上の魚

そじょうのうお

being in a helpless situation

梭子魚

かます

barracuda (Sphyraena spp.)

棘魚

とげうお

stickleback (Gasterosteidae spp.)

棘魚類

きょくぎょるい

acanthodians (extinct jawed fishes)

棘蝶々魚

とげちょうちょううお

threadfin butterflyfish (Chaetodon auriga, species of the Indo-Pacific)

獺魚を祭る

かわうそうおをまつる

one of the 72 climates (from the 16th to the 20th of the first lunar month)

翡翠

ひすい

beautiful lustrous colour similar to that of the kingfisher's feathers

翡翠

しょうびん

beautiful lustrous colour similar to that of the kingfisher's feathers

翡翠

かわせみ

beautiful lustrous colour similar to that of the kingfisher's feathers

虱目魚

さばひい

milkfish (Chanos chanos)

蛞蝓魚

なめくじうお

lancelet

躄魚

いざりうお

frogfish (any fish of family Antennariidae, esp. the striated frogfish, Antennarius striatus)

魴鮄

ほうぼう

red gurnard (Chelidonichthys spinosus)

鮑魚

ほうぎょ

salt-cured fish

鯊

はぜ

goby (fish)

鯒

こち

flathead (esp. the bartailed flathead, Platycephalus indicus)

鰡子

からすみ

dried mullet roe

鰰

はたはた

sailfin sandfish (Arctoscopus japonicus)

鱚

きす

sillago (any fish of genus Sillago, esp. the Japanese whiting, Sillago japonica)

鹹水魚

かんすいぎょ

saltwater fish

鼬魚

いたちうお

goatsbeard brotula (species of ophidiiform fish, Brotula multibarbata)

胭脂魚

イェンツーユイ

Chinese high fin banded shark (Myxocyprinus asiaticus)

魳鰆

かますさわら

wahoo (species of fish, Acanthocybium solandri)

鯯

さっぱ

Japanese sardinella (Sardinella zunasi)

鯷

ひしこ

Japanese anchovy (Engraulis japonica)

鯷

ひしこいわし

Japanese anchovy (Engraulis japonica)

鰣魚

じぎょ

Reeves' shad (Tenualosa reevesii)

鰱魚

れんぎょ

silver carp

鱝

えい

ray (any fish of superorder Batoidea)