魚
さかな
hepburn sakana
fish
Part of speech · noun
Pattern visualization
Examples
- 日本人は魚をよく食べます。Japanese people eat fish often.
- 魚屋で新鮮な魚を買いました。I bought fresh fish at the fishmonger.
Collocations
魚 (sakana, fish — culinary)魚屋 (sakanaya, fishmonger)焼き魚 (yakizakana, grilled fish)刺身 (sashimi, raw fish slices)魚介類 (gyokairui, seafood)
Mnemonic
Sakana — 魚, fish. The sound is Yamato. The kanji 魚 still pictures a fish — head, body, tail, fins. Meet it again in Mandarin Roots. One kanji wears three readings — sakana (the creature, the dish), uo (the market call), gyo (compounds). Island-nation food culture made the vocabulary multiply.
Quick check
Reading and meaning of 金魚?