Word Meaning 人魚

にんぎょ ningyo

人魚 is read as にんぎょ (ningyo) and means mermaid.

Meaning

English

mermaid
merman

Reading

Kana

にんぎょ

Romaji

ningyo

Stroke Sequence

2 Characters • 13 Total Strokes

Study Signals and Categories

JLPT N4 Jōyō Grade 2 Kanken 9級 Rank 22859 Priority D

Related Vocabulary

Max. 12

人面魚

じんめんぎょ

fish with a human-looking face

人間魚雷回天

にんげんぎょらいかいてん

Ningen Gyorai Kaiten (1955 film)

人間魚雷

にんげんぎょらい

human torpedo

人工魚礁

じんこうぎょしょう

artificial fish reef

半魚人

はんぎょじん

merman

人目

ひとめ

(public) notice

人事

じんじ

personnel affairs

人道

じんどう

human realm

人口

じんこう

common talk

人物

じんぶつ

able person

人工

じんこう

artificial

人体

じんたい

human body

Example Sentences

俺は小学校の時見たんだ、人魚。でもそんなメルヘンチックな話じゃなくて。

I saw one, a mermaid, when I was a primary schooler. But it wasn't that sort of fairy-tale atmosphere of a story.

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