Meanings
Readings
Common Words
Word usually written using kana alone
frog
ใใใ๏ผใซใฏใบ only
kajika frog (Buergeria buergeri)
prawn; shrimp; lobster
Historical term
Emishi; Ezo; non-Yamato peoples in northern Japan
ใใ only; Historical term
Yezo; Hokkaido, Sakhalin and the Kuril Islands
toad (esp. the Japanese toad, Bufo japonicus)
spiny lobster (esp. Japanese spiny lobster, Panulirus japonicus)
Yezo (northern part of Meiji-era Japan, esp. Hokkaido, but also Sakhalin and the Kuril Islands)
Edo-period realm of the Ainu (as opposed to the Japanese) comprising most of Hokkaido
goby (fish)
yellowfin goby (Acanthogobius flavimanus)
arching one's body backwards (like a shrimp)
Kabuki
holding out one or both hands and arching one's body backwards like a shrimp (to represent being overwhelmed by someone's power)
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