What 鮱 means
Read 鮱 as おおぼら: a fully grown mullet. This rare Japanese fish character is classed in Japanese references as a 国字, a Japanese-made character, while a Chinese dictionary treats it as a Japanese term for mature mullet.
As of 2026-09-08, the sources checked do not establish a first manuscript attestation or single inventor. They connect 鮱 with 鯔 and 鰡, related Japanese mullet spellings, with 老 supplying the fully grown sense.
Specialist and dictionary-like, not a normal chat reaction.
Don’t send 鮱 as a reaction; it needs fish context.
Who writes 鮱
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Don't confuse it with
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Questions people ask
1Can 鮱 fail to display?
Yes. In 2023, a Nikkei proofing column reported that its newspaper font lacked 鮱 and needed custom typesetting.
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How to type or find 鮱
- Also called
- おおぼら · ぼら · ボラ
- Search it as
- 鮱 · mullet · mature mullet · fish kanji · rare fish character
- Shows up in
- Anything that takes text · its shape is whatever your font draws
鮱\9BB1Codes and encoding1 code points
A visible symbol can contain several code points. JS .length counts UTF-16 units; UTF-8 counts bytes.