Word Meaning 桂魚

けつぎょ ketsugyo

桂魚 is read as けつぎょ (ketsugyo) and means mandarin fish (Siniperca chuatsi).

Meaning

English

  1. mandarin fish (Siniperca chuatsi)
  2. Chinese perch

Reading

Kana

けつぎょ

Romaji

ketsugyo

Writing Variants

  • 鱖魚 けつぎょ ketsugyo

Stroke Sequence

2 Characters • 21 Total Strokes

Study Signals and Categories

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Related Vocabulary

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かつら

katsura (Cercidiphyllum japonicum)

桂園時代

けいえんじだい

Keien period (between the end of the Russo-Japanese War and the Taisho Political Crisis, approx. 1905-1912)

桂月

けいげつ

moon

桂成り

けいなり

knight promotion

鮮魚

せんぎょ

fresh fish

稚魚

ちぎょ

fry

淡水魚

たんすいぎょ

freshwater fish

宮部岩魚

みやべいわな

Miyabe charr (Salvelinus malma miyabei)

大衆魚

たいしゅうぎょ

cheap fish for the masses (e.g. sardines, mackerel, pike)

玉筋魚

いかなご

Japanese sand lance (Ammodytes personatus)

素魚

しろうお

ice goby (Leucopsarion petersii)

赤翻車魚

あかまんぼう

opah (Lampris guttatus)