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鰯鯨

Japanese edit

Kanji in this term
鰯 鯨
いわし
Jinmeiyō 		くじら
Grade: S
kun’yomi
 イワシクジラ on Japanese Wikipedia

Pronunciation edit

Noun edit

鰯(いわし)鯨(くじら) or 鰯鯨(イワシクジラ) • (iwashikujira) ←いわしくぢら (iwasikudira) or イワシクヂラ (iwasikudira)?

  1. a sei whale

Usage notes edit

As with many terms that name organisms, this term is often spelled in katakana, especially in biological contexts (where katakana is customary), as イワシクジラ.

References edit

  1. ^ Matsumura, Akira, editor (2006), 大辞林 (in Japanese), Third edition, Tōkyō: Sanseidō, →ISBN
  2. ^ NHK Broadcasting Culture Research Institute, editor (1998), NHK日本語発音アクセント辞典 [NHK Japanese Pronunciation Accent Dictionary] (in Japanese), Tōkyō: NHK Publishing, →ISBN
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