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鯛
N1 19 strokes Grade 9 freq #2446

sea bream, red snapper

On'yomi (音読み)

チョウ

Kun'yomi (訓読み)

たい

Radical (部首)

魚 fish sakana

Others with this radical

鮮 魚 鯨 鮎 鯉

On'yomi compounds (音読み)

鯛 タイ sea bream (esp. Pagrus major); porgy
浜鯛 はまだい queen snapper (Etelis coruscans); ruby snapper
松鯛 まつだい tripletail (Lobotes surinamensis)
壺鯛 ツボダイ Japanese armorhead (Pentaceros japonicus)
胡廬鯛 コロダイ painted sweetlips (Diagramma pictum)
薔薇笛鯛 ばらふえだい two-spot red snapper (Lutjanus bohar)
千年鯛 せんねんだい emperor red snapper (Lutjanus sebae); bourgeois red snapper
桜鯛 さくらだい cherry anthias (Sacura margaritacea)
胡麻笛鯛 ごまふえだい mangrove jack (Lutjanus argentimaculatus); mangrove red snapper
金時鯛 きんときだい red bigeye (Priacanthus macracanthus)

Kun'yomi words (訓読み)

鯛茶漬け たいちゃづけ tai chazuke; sea bream and tea over rice
にらみ鯛 にらみだい decorative fish displayed during festive occasions
鷹の羽鯛 たかのはだい spottedtail morwong (Goniistius zonatus)
青武鯛 あおぶたい Scarus ovifrons (species of parrotfish)

Example sentences

海老(えび)で鯛(タイ)を釣(つ)る。

Throw a sprat to catch a whale.

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