What 鮴 means
鮴 is a Japanese-made kanji read ごり for a regional fish name.
ごり is a regional name for several small freshwater fish. A separate dictionary sense reads 鮴 as めばる, a marine rockfish.
A Japanese dictionary, 易林本節用集, records ごり in 1597. That dates a written record of the fish name, not when the name began or 鮴 was created; the kanji gives the local name a written form.
Why can 鮴 refer to different fish?
ごり is a regional fish name, not one fixed species.
Dictionaries attach the name to more than one fish, and its referent varies with local usage. A place or the full name of a fish can narrow down what a message means.
Rare and dictionary-style; in ordinary Japanese writing, ごり in kana is more familiar.
Do not infer one fish species from 鮴 alone.
Who writes 鮴
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What it means when someone sends it to you
3 readingsA regional Japanese name for small freshwater fish; the exact species varies by place.
Related characters
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石伏魚 An alternate Japanese spelling for ごり, the regional fish name; it does not name a second species.
葦登 A Japanese written fish name for another freshwater fish included under ごり in some dictionaries.
Questions people ask
1Why does 鮴 show as a box on some devices?
Because that device's fonts have no glyph for it. The character is still correct and still copies correctly — the box is a missing glyph, not a broken character.
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How to type or find 鮴
- Also called
- ごり · ゴリ · 石伏魚
- Search it as
- gori · mebaru · メバル · ishibushiuo · kajika · かじか · yoshinobori · よしのぼり
- Shows up in
- Anything that takes text · its shape is whatever your font draws
鮴\9BB4Codes and encoding1 code points
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