Kanji 鰹 Words: Meanings and Readings

堅魚

かつお

skipjack tuna (Katsuwonus pelamis)

かつおの塩辛

かつおのしおから

salted fermented bonito guts

かつお節

かつおぶし

katsuobushi

かつお味噌

かつおみそ

bonito miso

花かつお

はなかつお

dried bonito shavings

鰹だし

かつおだし

(dried) bonito stock

鰹の烏帽子

かつおのえぼし

Portuguese man-of-war (Physalia physalis)

鰹鯨

かつおくじら

Eden's whale (Balaenoptera edeni)

鰹節虫

かつおぶしむし

dermestid beetle

鰹鳥

かつおどり

booby (esp. the brown booby, Sula leucogaster)

堅魚木

かつおぎ

log on the roof of a shrine set perpendicular to the ridgepole

歯鰹

はがつお

striped bonito (Sarda orientalis)

縞鰹

しまがつお

Pacific pomfret (Brama japonica)

宗太鰹

そうだがつお

frigate tuna (Auxis spp.)

宗太鰹属

そうだがつおぞく

Auxis (genus of tuna)

秋鰹

あきがつお

bonito caught in autumn

初松魚

はつがつお

the first bonito of the season

真魚鰹

まながつお

butterfish (any fish of family Stromateidae, esp. species Pampus punctatissimus)

猫にかつおぶし

ねこにかつおぶし

temptation one can't resist

白鰹鳥

しろかつおどり

northern gannet (Morus bassanus)

姫鰹節虫

ひめかつおぶしむし

black carpet beetle (Attagenus unicolor japonicus)

姫丸鰹節虫

ひめまるかつおぶしむし

carpet beetle (Anthrenus verbasci)