EntryCommon
  1. Noun

    ayu (Plecoglossus altivelis); sweetfish

    Usually written using kana alone

Also written 香魚【あゆ】年魚【あゆ】

Pitch on OJAD

Characters in this word

1
Strokes: KanjiVG, CC BY-SA 3.0

freshwater trout, smelt

Kun
あゆなまず
On
デンネン
Strokes
16
Taught
Jinmeiyō
JLPT
N1
Frequency
2201 of 2500
Radical
fish

Built from

Used in names as

あい

Dictionary and index codes (19)
CodeReference
1-11-5SKIP code
11a5.7The Kanji Dictionary
2136.0Four corner code
9b8eUnicode hex code
1-16-30JIS X 0208-1997 kuten code
5288Classic Nelson (Andrew Nelson)
6855New Nelson (John Haig)
1876New Japanese-English Character Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
2352Kodansha Kanji Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
1209Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
1655Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary, 2nd Edition (Jack Halpern)
2817Remembering The Kanji (James Heisig)
2832Remembering The Kanji, 6th edition (James Heisig)
2547Japanese Names (P.G. O’Neill)
46070Morohashi
2270Kanji and Kana (Spahn and Hadamitzky)
nian2Pinyin reading
jeomKorean reading
n1JLPT level (KANJIDIC2)