Meaning

Primary

Whale Meat

Word Type

noun

Explanation

Whale meat is whale meat.

Reading

げいにく
  • Kyoko
    (Tokyo accent, female)
  • Kenichi
    (Tokyo accent, male)
くじらにく
  • Miyuki
    (Tokyo accent, female)
  • Kenichi
    (Tokyo accent, male)

Explanation

This word has two possible readings. The first is げいにく, which uses the standard on'yomi readings of the kanji. This is the more traditional reading you'll encounter in dictionaries and formal contexts. The second reading, くじらにく, comes from 鯨's vocab reading of くじら and is becoming more and more common in everyday speech nowadays.

Context

Context Sentences

美味しい鯨肉の店を知っているよ。

I know a delicious whale meat shop.

Kanji Composition