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Readings

Kana: コウ、さめ、みずち
Romaji: kou, same, mizuchi
Kana
Romaji

Meaning

shark

Stroke Diagram

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Kanji Info

Stroke Count:  17
Radical Number:  195
Frequency:  2244
Grade: 
Skip Pattern:  1-11-6
Korean Reading:  gyo
Chinese Reading:  jiao1
Unicode:  9bab
JIS:  3B2D

Indexes

Nelson Index: 5294
New Nelson Index: 6863
Spahn Hadamitzky Index: 11a6.5
Four Corner Index: 2034.8
Japanese Names Index: 2672
Daikanwanjiten Index: 46127
Daikanwanjiten Index and Page: 12.0742
Remembering the kanji Index: 2821
Remembering the Kanji 6th Index: 2836
Kodansha Kanji Index: 2354

Words

(さめ、サメ)
shark
蝶鮫 (ちょうざめ、チョウザメ)
sturgeon (esp. the green sturgeon, Acipenser medirostris)
鋸鮫 (のこぎりざめ、ノコギリザメ)
saw shark (esp. the Japanese saw shark, Prietiophorus japonicus)
姥鮫 (うばざめ、ウバザメ)
basking shark (Cetorhinus maximus)
葦切鮫 (よしきりざめ、ヨシキリザメ)
blue shark (Prionace glauca, species of circumglobal requiem shark)
小判鮫 (こばんざめ)
remora; suckerfish; sharksucker (any fish of family Echeneidae); live sharksucker (Echeneis naucrates)
鮫皮 (さめがわ)
sharkskin; rough skin
銀鮫 (ぎんざめ、ギンザメ)
silver chimaera (Chimaera phantasma, species of deep water cartilaginous ghost shark from the Western Pacific)
角鮫 (つのざめ、ツノザメ)
dogfish (any shark of family Squalidae)
鮫肌 (さめはだ)
rough skin (like that of a shark)
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