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鮫
🇹🇼🇭🇰🇯🇵🇰🇷
鲛
🇨🇳

shark

HSK 10
Nature →Animals →Fish
jiāo
コウ
さめ、みずち
교
Components
Traditional (鮫)
魚 fish+ 交 mingle =
鮫 shark
魚 Meaning component
fish
fish
交 Phonetic component
jiāo mingle
mix
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Simplified (鲛)
鱼 Yu (surname)+ 交 mingle =
鲛 shark
鱼 Meaning component
yú Yu (surname)
fish
fish
交 Phonetic component
jiāo mingle
mix
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Notes
Similar Characters
魠 rare魷 cuttlefish (alt) (trad)鮃 Flatfish A Flatfish (trad)鮑 abalone (trad)鮨 seasoned鮪 kind of sturgeon (trad)鮭 spheroides (trad)鮮 fresh (trad/jp)鯇 grass (trad)鯉 carp (trad)鯊 shark (alt) (trad)鯔 mullet (trad)鯕 coryphaena hippurus (trad)鯖 mackerel (iii) (trad)鯗 dried fish (alt) (trad)鯛 pagrosomus major (trad)鯡 herring (iii) (trad)鯢 cryptobranchus (trad)鯤 spawn (trad)鯧 the silvery pomfret (trad)
Historical Evolution
Seal Shuowen (~100 AD)
Seal
Shuowen (~100 AD)
鮫
Regular
Modern
Chinese
鲛 / 鮫 [jiāo]
see 鮫魚|鲛鱼[jiāo​yú]
Japanese
鮫 サメ 、 さめ 同音
noun usually kana shark
Example Sentences
🇯🇵 (1)
サメがその男の足を噛み切った。
A shark snapped the man's leg off.
Japanese Names
鮫 さめ
Same surname
CHINESE WORDS (6)
马鲛鱼 [mǎ​jiāo​yú] #54,647
Japanese Spanish mackerel (Scomberomorus niphonius)
鲛鱼 [jiāo​yú] #58,684
shark
竹鲛 [zhú​jiāo]
see 馬鮫魚|马鲛鱼[mǎ​jiāo​yú]
青鲛 [qīng​jiāo]
ferocious sea fish
鲛人 [jiāo​rén]
mermaid
鲽鲛 [dié​jiāo]
sturgeon
JAPANESE WORDS (77)
鮫肌 [さめはだ] #127,941
rough skin (like that of a shark)
小判鮫 [コバンザメ] #142,534
remora (any fish of family Echeneidae)
人食いザメ [ひとくいザメ] #142,861
man-eating shark (esp. great white shark)
蝶鮫 [ちょうざめ] #147,478
sturgeon (esp. the green sturgeon, Acipenser medirostris)
鮫皮 [さめがわ] #166,640
shagreen (from a shark or stingray)
青鮫 [アオザメ] #187,952
shortfin mako shark (Isurus oxyrinchus)
角鮫 [つのざめ] #198,235
dogfish (any shark of family Squalidae)
鮫鞘 [さめざや] #212,955
sharkskin scabbard
鰐鮫 [わにざめ] #239,184
ferocious shark
銀鮫 [ギンザメ] #248,918
silver chimaera (Chimaera phantasma)
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