Entry
  1. Noun

    mantis shrimp (any marine crustacean of order Stomatopoda, esp. the species Oratosquilla oratoria); mantis crab; squilla

    Usually written using kana alone

Also written 車子【しゃこ】青竜蝦【しゃこ】

Pitch on OJAD

Characters in this word

2
Strokes: KanjiVG, CC BY-SA 3.0

shrimp, prawn, lobster

Kun
えび
On
Strokes
15
Taught
Jinmeiyō
Frequency
2501 of 2500
Radical
insect

Built from

Used in names as

えみ

Dictionary and index codes (15)
CodeReference
1-6-9SKIP code
6d9.4The Kanji Dictionary
5714.7Four corner code
8766Unicode hex code
1-18-60JIS X 0208-1997 kuten code
4172Classic Nelson (Andrew Nelson)
5364New Nelson (John Haig)
1773Kodansha Kanji Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
1279Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary, 2nd Edition (Jack Halpern)
2689Remembering The Kanji (James Heisig)
2728Remembering The Kanji, 6th edition (James Heisig)
2313Japanese Names (P.G. O’Neill)
33299Morohashi
xia1, ha2Pinyin reading
haKorean reading
Strokes: KanjiVG, CC BY-SA 3.0

mole cricket, cicada

On
Strokes
11
Radical
insect

Built from

Dictionary and index codes (9)
CodeReference
1-6-5SKIP code
6d5.9The Kanji Dictionary
5416.0Four corner code
86c4Unicode hex code
1-73-54JIS X 0208-1997 kuten code
5295New Nelson (John Haig)
32960Morohashi
gu1, gu3Pinyin reading
goKorean reading