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Radical:
Radical Strokes: 11
Additional Strokes: 8
Total Strokes: 19
Simplified Form:

Pronunciation

Pinyin: kūn
Cantonese: gwan1
JapaneseKun: HARAGO GIGI
JapaneseOn: KON
Korean: KON

Dictionary definitions

Unicode: spawn; roe; fy

CE-Dict: fabulous sea monster, cf Leviathan or Jonah's whale/fry/young of fishes

21 Century bidirectional dictionary: 1.a kind of legendary fish said to be thousands of miles long

康熙字典文字版 【亥集中】【魚字部】 鯤
【廣韻】古渾切【集韻】【韻會】【正韻】公渾切,𠀤音昆。【爾雅·釋魚】鯤,魚子。【註】凡魚之子名鯤。【魯語】魚禁鯤鮞。【類篇】或作𩽞鰥。又【玉篇】大魚。【列子·湯問篇】有魚焉,其廣數千里,其長稱焉,其名爲鯤。【莊子·逍遙遊】北冥有魚,其名爲鯤。【陸德明·音義】崔譔云:鯤當爲鯨。又【集韻】胡昆切,音渾。義同。
考證:〔【列子·殷湯篇】有魚焉,其廣數千里,其長稱焉,其名爲鯤。〕 謹照原書改湯問篇。

CF-Dict: (monstre marin)

Han-De-Dict: Meerungeheuer (u.E.) (S)