鯢

鯢 (Kangxi radical 195, 魚+8, 19 strokes, cangjie input 弓火竹難山 (NFHXU), four-corner 2731₇, composition ⿰魚兒)

• Kangxi Dictionary: page 1472, character 37
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 46245
• Dae Jaweon: page 2004, character 43
• Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 7, page 4696, character 18
• Unihan data for U+9BE2

Phono-semantic compound (形聲 / 形声, OC *ŋeː): semantic 魚 (“fish”) + phonetic 兒 (OC *ŋeː, *ŋje).

鯢

1. giant salamander

   • 今鯢魚似鮎，四脚，前似彌猴，後似狗。聲如小兒啼，大者長八九尺。 [Literary Chinese, trad.]
     今鲵鱼似鲇，四脚，前似弥猴，后似狗。声如小儿啼，大者长八九尺。 [Literary Chinese, simp.]

     From: Guo Pu's commentary on Erya; English translation from Valenti (2018)

     Jīn níyú sì nián, sì jiǎo, qián sì míhóu, hòu sì gǒu. Shēng rú xiǎo'ér tí, dà zhě cháng bā jiǔ chǐ. [Pinyin]

     Nowadays, the giant salamander looks like a catfish, it has four limbs; on the front it looks like a macaque, from behind it looks like a dog. Its cry seems the wail of an infant, the biggest ones are between eight and nine feet long (1,85 – 2,08 metres).

2. (literary) female whale
3. (literary) small fish
4. (literary) alternative form of 齯 / 𫠜 (ní)

(Hyōgai kanji, kyūjitai kanji, shinjitai form ⿰魚児)

1. (Tokyo) salamander
2. female whale
3. small fish
4. old person's teeth

• Go-on: げ (ge)
• Kan-on: げい (gei)
• Kun: さんしょううお (sanshōuo, 鯢)^{←さんせううを (sanseuuwo, 鯢, historical)}、めくじら (mekujira, 鯢)^{←めくぢら (mekudira, 鯢, historical)}

• (Tokyo) さんしょーうお [sàńshóꜜòùò] (Nakadaka – [3])
• IPA^(key): [sã̠ɰ̃ɕo̞ːɯ̟o̞]

鯢(さんしょううお) or 鯢(サンショウウオ) • (sanshōuo) ^{←さんせううを (sanseuuwo) or サンセウウヲ (sanseuuwo)?}

1. alternative spelling of 山椒魚 (“primitive salamander”)

鯢 • (ye) (hangeul 예, revised ye, McCune–Reischauer ye, Yale yey)

1. (도롱뇽) salamander

• 鰐 or 鱷 (악, ag) crocodile, alligator
• 鰐魚 (악어, ag-eo) crocodile, alligator