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鮭 — 17 strokes ／ Radical「魚」

道
準1University / general ／ 17 strokes ／ Radical「魚」
On
カイ・ケイかい・けい · kai · kei
Kun
さけ・しゃけ・ふぐsake · shake · fugu
Meaning
salmon

STROKE ORDER

Stroke order

ORIGIN

Origin

魚 "fish" with 圭 as phonetic: the fish that swims up the river — the salmon.

COMPOUNDS

Compounds

  • 鮭さけ

    salmon

  • 紅鮭べにざけ

    sockeye salmon

EXAMPLE

Example

A sentence using this kanji

秋(あき)に鮭(さけ)が川(かわ)をのぼってくる。

In autumn the salmon come up the river.

Nearby characters

The line style shows how they connect

紅鮭鮭紅crimso…魯dull鮒crucia…鮎sweetf…鮫shark鮪tuna亥the Bo…圭ceremo…芥mustar…苅mow卦divina…
CompoundRadicalReading

Compound

Map of radical 魚Map of reading カイAll maps

Stroke data from: KanjiVG (CC BY-SA 3.0)

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