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鯖
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鲭
🇨🇳

mackerel (iii)

HSK 10
Nature →Animals →Fish
qīng
セイ、ショウ
さば
청
Phonosemantic compound. 魚 represents the meaning and 青 represents the sound.
Components
Traditional (鯖)
魚 fish+ 青 blue or green =
鯖 mackerel (iii)
魚 Meaning component
fish
青 Phonetic component
qīng blue or green
blue, green, black
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Simplified (鲭)
鱼 Yu (surname)+ 青 blue or green =
鲭 mackerel
鱼 Meaning component
yú Yu (surname)
fish
青 Phonetic component
qīng blue or green
blue, green, black
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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)鮫 shark (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)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 Chu (Warring States: 475-221 BC)
Seal
Chu (Warring States: 475-221 BC)
鯖
Regular
Modern
Chinese
鲭 / 鯖 [qīng]
see 鯖魚|鲭鱼[qīng​yú]
Japanese
鯖 さば 、 サバ 同音

noun

  1. usually kana mackerel (esp. the chub mackerel, Scomber japonicus)
  2. net-sl server (esp. in an online game)
Example Sentences
🇯🇵 (1)
早く帰った方がいい、暑いから。サバは、生き腐れとも言われるくらい足が早い。
It's hot, so you'd better head back quickly. Mackerel goes off so fast that they coined 'fresh-looking rotten fish'.
Japanese Names
鯖 さば
Saba surname
CHINESE WORDS (1)
鲭鱼 [qīng​yú]
mackerel
JAPANESE WORDS (18)
鯖折り [さばおり] #128,240
forward force down
サバを読む [さばをよむ] #137,856
to manipulate figures to one's advantage
サバ虎 [サバとら] #216,432
mackerel tabby (cat)
鯖節 [さばぶし] #223,351
dried, smoked mackerel
真鯖 [まさば] #235,216
chub mackerel (Scomber japonicus)
しめ鯖 [しめさば] #294,818
soused mackerel
サバ読む [さばよむ]
to manipulate figures to one's advantage
鯖雲 [さばぐも]
cirrocumulus cloud
鯖猫 [さばねこ]
mackerel tabby (cat)
鯖落ち [サバおち]
server outage (e.g. in an online game)
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