Entry
  1. Noun

    appetizer or snack served with drinks

    豆腐は良い酒の肴になる。
    Tofu goes well with good sake.
  2. performance to liven up a bar; conversation to liven up a party

Also written 酒菜【さかな】

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Characters in this word

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Strokes: KanjiVG, CC BY-SA 3.0

accompaniment for drinks

Kun
さかな
On
コウ
Strokes
8
Taught
Jinmeiyō
Radical
meat

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Dictionary and index codes (15)
CodeReference
2-2-6SKIP code
4b4.12The Kanji Dictionary
4022.7Four corner code
80b4Unicode hex code
1-26-72JIS X 0208-1997 kuten code
3735Classic Nelson (Andrew Nelson)
4767New Nelson (John Haig)
2567Kodansha Kanji Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
1780Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary, 2nd Edition (Jack Halpern)
2896Remembering The Kanji (James Heisig)
2905Remembering The Kanji, 6th edition (James Heisig)
29322Morohashi
1502Les Kanjis dans la tête (Yves Maniette)
yao2Pinyin reading
hyoKorean reading