鯛

Japanese butterfish (Psenopsis anomala); melon seed

Colloquial

red sea bream (i.e. the tai, Pagrus major)

Sumo; Food, cooking

fish given to a tournament winner as congratulations

blue green damselfish (Chromis viridis); blue-green chromis

Chinese emperor (species of emperor bream, Lethrinus haematopterus)

Word usually written using kana alone

Matsubara's red rockfish (Sebastes matsubarae)

Food, cooking; Kantou-ben

red rockfish; red scorpionfish

pearl-spot chromis (Chromis notata)

John Dory (Zeus faber)

spotted scat (Scatophagus argus); green scat; red scat

star snapper (species of fish, Lutjanus stellatus)

emperor red snapper (Lutjanus sebae); bourgeois red snapper; bourgeois fish

rock porgy (Oplegnathus punctatus); spotted knifejaw

Japanese soldierfish (Ostichthys japonicus)

Pacific barrelfish (Hyperoglyphe japonica)

(adult male) Asian sheepshead wrasse (Semicossyphus reticulatus)

silver sea bream (Sparus sarba)

sharphead hogfish (Bodianus oxycephalus)

queen snapper (Etelis coruscans); ruby snapper; flame snapper

lavender jobfish (Pristipomoides sieboldii); flower jobfish

Japanese armorhead (Pentaceros japonicus)

silver eye (species of beardfish, Polymixia japonica)

painted sweetlips (Diagramma pictum)

crescent sweetlips (species of fish, Plectorhinchus cinctus)

North Pacific squirrelfish (Sargocentron spinosissimum)

longnose butterfly fish (Forcipiger flavissimus, species of butterflyfish from the Indo-Pacific); forcepsfish