Kanji
N2 7 strokes Grade 1 freq #1787

shellfish

On'yomi (音読み)

Kun'yomi (訓読み)

Radical (部首)

shellfish kai

Others with this radical

On'yomi compounds (音読み)

noble scallop (Chlamys nobilis)
Astralium haematragum (species of turban shell)
elongate janthina (Janthina globosa)
Astropecten scoparius (species of starfish)
toothed top shell (Monodonta labio)
windowpane oyster (Placuna placenta)
embossed venus (Venus toreuma)
constricted tagelus (Sinonovacula constricta); Chinese razor clam
widespread column (species of land snail, Pupilla muscorum)
Xenostrobus securis (species of saltwater mussel)

Kun'yomi words (訓読み)

shellfish
seashell; shell
shell heap; shell mound
snail; spiral shell
penguin wing oyster (Pteria penguin)
shellfish baked in the shell
west wind in the early spring (traditionally on the night of the 20th day of the second month of the lunar calendar); wind that blows seashells ashore
black-striped mussel (Mytilopsis sallei)
geoduck (Panopea generosa)

Example sentences

What I have in my hand is a fossil seashell.

I don't like shellfish.

Tom picked up some pretty shells on the beach.

I picked up a pretty shell at the seaside.