Word usually written using kana alone

loach (any fish of family Cobitidae)

weather loach (Misgurnus anguillicaudatus); pond loach

scooping loaches; catching loach in a net

loach-catching dance

loach soup

Japanese striped loach (Cobitis biwae)

Japanese eight-barbel loach (Lefua echigonia)

Niwaella delicata (species of loach)

Cobitis takatsuensis (species of loach)

blotched snakehead (Channa maculata)

Idiomatic expression

two things that do not go well together; pairing kintsuba with loach soup

Proverb

a fox is not taken twice in the same snare; there are no birds in last year's nest; there aren't always loaches under the willow tree