16 strokes
Jinmeiyou kanji used in names
Kentei exam level Pre-1
JLPT exam level N1

freshwater trout, smelt

Kun'yomi
  • sweetfish (Plecoglossus altivelis altivelis) ②salmon
  • なまず
On'yomi
  • デン
  • ネン
Nanori
  • sweetfish (Plecoglossus altivelis altivelis) ②salmon

Main Radical

(KanXi)

Reading Commonality

あゆ 99.0%
あい 1.0%

Character Breakdown

freshwater trout, smelt
あゆ あい デン (Kentei Pre-1, N1)
fish
さかな ギョ うお (2nd, N4)
knife, wrapping enclosure(勹) variant
rice field, rice paddy
た デン たん (1st, N4)
fire, fire radical (no. 86)
ヒョウ カ
fortune-telling, divining, forecasting
うらな.う セン し.める (7th, N2)
divining, fortune-telling, divination or katakana to radical (no. 25)
ボク うらな.う うらない (Kentei Pre-1)
mouth
くち コウ ク (1st, N4)

Common Words

sweetfish going downstream to spawn (in autumn)
young sweetfish
young sweetfish
fishing for ayu
sweetfish sushi
More Words...

References

Unicode hex code 9B8E
JIS X 0208 1-16-30
Nelson, A. Classic Nelson 5288
Haig, J. New Nelson Japanese-English Character Dictionary 6855
Halpern, J. New Japanese-English Character Dictionary 1876
Halpern, J. Kodansha Kanji Dictionary 2352
Halpern, J. Kanji Learners Dictionary (Kodansha) 1209
Halpern, J. Kanji Learners Dictionary (Kodansha), 2nd edition (2013) 1655
Heisig, J. Remembering The Kanji 2817
Heisig, J. Remembering The Kanji, Sixth Ed. 2832
O'Neill, P.G. Japanese Names 2547
Morohashi Daikanwajiten 46070
Spahn and Hadamitzky Kanji and Kana 2270
Tuttle Dictionary Descriptor Code 11a5.7
Four corner code 2136.0