Word Meaning 泥鰌

どじょう dojou

泥鰌 is read as どじょう (dojou) and means loach (any fish of family Cobitidae).

Meaning

English

loach (any fish of family Cobitidae)
weather loach (Misgurnus anguillicaudatus)
pond loach

Reading

Kana

どじょう

Romaji

dojou

Writing Variants

泥鰌どんじょ donjo
泥鰌どんじょう donjou
鰌どじょう dojou

Stroke Sequence

2 Characters • 28 Total Strokes

Study Signals and Categories

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Related Vocabulary

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味女泥鰌

あじめどじょう

Niwaella delicata (species of loach)

台湾泥鰌

たいわんどじょう

blotched snakehead (Channa maculata)

石泥鰌

いしどじょう

Cobitis takatsuensis (species of loach)

仏泥鰌

ほとけどじょう

Japanese eight-barbel loach (Lefua echigonia)

縞泥鰌

しまどじょう

Japanese striped loach (Cobitis biwae)

柳の下にいつも泥鰌はいない

やなぎのしたにいつもどじょうはいない

a fox is not taken twice in the same snare

柳の下にいつも泥鰌はおらぬ

やなぎのしたにいつもどじょうはおらぬ

a fox is not taken twice in the same snare

泥炭

でいたん

peat

泥沼

どろぬま

quandary

泥

どろ

thief

泥棒

どろぼう

theft

泥水

どろみず

muddy water

Example Sentences

柳の下の泥鰌。

A fox isn't caught twice in the same snare.