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蜆

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蚬

🇨🇳

a variety of bivalves

HSK 10

Nature →Animals →Invertebrates

xiǎn

ケン

しじみ

현

Components

Notes

Historical Evolution

Seal Shuowen (~100 AD)

Seal

Shuowen (~100 AD)

Clerical Jin dynasty (266-420 AD)

Clerical

Jin dynasty (266-420 AD)

蜆

Regular

Modern

Chinese

蚬 / 蜆 [xiǎn]

Cyclina orientalis

Japanese

蜆しじみ、シジミ同音

noun usually kana basket clam (Corbiculidae spp.); freshwater clam; freshwater mussel

Example Sentences

Japanese Names

蜆しじみ

Shijimi surname

JAPANESE WORDS (9)

蜆汁 [しじみじる] #189,335

soup with basket clams (usu. miso soup)

小灰蝶 [しじみちょう] #231,794

gossamer-winged butterflies (Lycaenidae spp.)

しじみ貝 [しじみがい]

basket clam (Corbiculidae spp.)

溝蜆 [どぶしじみ]

Sphaerium japonicum (species of fingernail clam)

大和小灰蝶 [やまとしじみ]

pale grass blue (species of gossamer-winged butterfly, Pseudozizeeria maha)

大和蜆 [やまとしじみ]

Corbicula japonica (species of basket clam)

寒蜆 [かんしじみ]

Shijimi clam caught during winter

瀬田蜆 [せたしじみ]

Corbicula sandai (species of basket clam)

真蜆 [ましじみ]

Corbicula leana (species of basket clam)