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Whale Fish People 鯨 ゲイ くじら 捕鯨(ほげい Whaling

Kanji
Onyomi ゲイ
Kunyomi くじら
English whale
Examples 捕鯨(ほげい): whaling; whale fishing
JLPT Level 1
Jouyou Grade S
Frequency 1486
Components 魚: fish
京: capital; 10**16
Number of Strokes 19
Kanji Radical
Radical Number 195
Radical Strokes 11
Radical Reading うお・うおへん・さかな
Traditional Form (none)
Classification 形声 Phonetic
Keyword whale
Koohii Story 1 If fish were cities, the whale would surely be the capital.
Koohii Story 2 When the whale was first discovered it was the biggest fish people had ever seen. Stories exaggerated its size - people said it was as big as the entire capital city!
RTK Index (new) 337

Tags: jlpt.n1, grades, kanjifreq1001-1500, kanji_nature_animal

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