どじょう
Meanings
Noun
Usually written in kana
1. loach (any fish of family Cobitidae)
2. weather loach (Misgurnus anguillicaudatus); pond loach
Pitch accent
じょう
Used in vocabulary (9 in total)
scooping loaches; catching loach in a net; loach-catching dance
Japanese striped loach (Cobitis biwae)
a fox is not taken twice in the same snare; there are no birds in last year's nest; (lit.) there aren't always loaches under the willow tree
Japanese eight-barbel loach (Lefua echigonia)
blotched snakehead (Channa maculata)
a fox is not taken twice in the same snare; there are no birds in last year's nest; (lit.) there aren't always loach under the willow tree; good luck does not always repeat itself
Niwaella delicata (species of loach)
Cobitis takatsuensis (species of loach)
scooping loaches; catching loach in a net; loach-catching dance