くじら
Meanings
Noun
Usually written in kana
1. whale (Cetacea spp.)
Kanji used
whale
Pitch accent
じら
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Used in vocabulary (31 in total)
Cetus (constellation); the Whale
black and white striped curtain (used at funeral service)
wild boar meat; (lit.) mountain whale
Cetartiodactyla; order comprising the even-toed ungulates and whales
larger whales of family Delphinidae (esp. the pilot whale or blackfish)
beaked whale; Cuvier's beaked whale (Ziphius cavirostris)
obi with a different colour on each side
spermaceti (waxy substance found in the head cavities of sperm whales)
spermaceti (waxy substance found in the head cavities of sperm whales)
spermaceti (waxy substance found in the head cavities of sperm whales)
toothed whale; odontocete
humpback whale (Megaptera novaeangliae)
whalebone; baleen
fin whale; finback (whale); razorback whale (Balaenoptera physalus)
baleen whale; whalebone whale; mysticete
minke whale; piked whale (Balaenoptera acutorostrata)
North Pacific right whale (Eubalaena japonica)
Baird's beaked whale (Berardius bairdii)
bowhead whale (Balaena mysticetus); Greenland right whale
Shepherd's beaked whale (Tasmacetus shepherdi)
Antarctic minke whale (Balaenoptera bonaerensis); southern minke whale
Eden's whale (Balaenoptera edeni); Bryde's whale
sei whale (Balaenoptera borealis)
Examples (8 in total)
Have you ever seen a whale?
It was believed that whales were fish.
Most whales feed on plankton.