| 1208 | A Guide To Remembering Japanese Characters (Kenneth G. Henshall) |
| 1768 | A New Dictionary of Kanji Usage |
| 5307 | Classic Nelson (Andrew Nelson) |
| 1345 | Essential Kanji (P.G. O’Neill) |
| 1921 | Japanese Kanji Flashcards (Max Hodges and Tomoko Okazaki) |
| 2831 | Japanese Names (P.G. O’Neill) |
| 700 | Kanji and Kana (Spahn and Hadamitzky) |
| 713 | Kanji and Kana, 2nd Edition (Spahn and Hadamitzky) |
| 915 | Kanji in Context (Nishiguchi and Kono) |
| 1933 | Kodansha Compact Kanji Guide |
| 2361 | Kodansha Kanji Dictionary (Jack Halpern) |
| 1214 | Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary (Jack Halpern) |
| 1661 | Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary, 2nd Edition (Jack Halpern) |
| 321 | Les Kanjis dans la tete (Yves Maniette) |
| 46257 | Morohashi |
| 1882 | New Japanese English Character Dictionary (Jack Halpern) |
| 6886 | New Nelson (John Haig) |
| 315 | Remembering The Kanji (James Heisig) |
| 337 | Remembering The Kanji, 6th edition (James Heisig) |
| 1927 | Tuttle Kanji Cards (Alexander Kask) |
Jōyō kanji, taught in junior high
JLPT level N1
1486 of 2500 most used kanji in newspapers
Stroke order
On reading compounds
- 鯨肉 【ゲイニク】 whale meat
- 鯨飲 【ゲイイン】 drinking hard, drinking like a fish
- 酔鯨 【スイゲイ】 Suigei
- 白鯨 【ハクゲイ】 Moby-Dick (1851 novel by Herman Melville)
Kun reading compounds
- 鯨 【くじら】 whale (Cetacea spp.)
- 鯨肉 【げいにく】 whale meat
- タスマニア鯨 【タスマニアくじら】 Shepherd's beaked whale (Tasmacetus shepherdi)
- 五島鯨 【ごとうくじら】 larger whales of family Delphinidae (esp. the pilot whale or blackfish)
Readings
- Korean:
- gyeong
Spanish
- ballena
Portuguese
- baleia
French
- baleine
| 2541 | 2001 Kanji |
| 11a8.9 | The Kanji Dictionary |
| 1-11-8 | SKIP code |
| 2039.6 | Four corner code |
| 1-23-63 | JIS X 0208-1997 kuten code |
| 9be8 | Unicode hex code |
Jōyō kanji, taught in grade 4
JLPT level N2
1094 of 2500 most used kanji in newspapers
Stroke order
On reading compounds
- 漁業 【ギョギョウ】 fishing industry, fishery
- 漁獲 【ギョカク】 fishing, catch, haul
- 出漁 【シュツリョウ】 going fishing, going out to fish
- 大漁 【タイリョウ】 big catch (fishing), good haul
- 漁 【リョウ】 fishing, gathering seafood (e.g. clams, seaweed), catch (e.g. of fish), haul
- 漁師 【リョウシ】 fisherman
- 大漁 【タイリョウ】 big catch (fishing), good haul
- 豊漁 【ホウリョウ】 good catch, good haul
Kun reading compounds
- 漁る 【あさる】 to fish, to look for, to search for, to hunt for, to scavenge, to scrounge, to look through, to rummage through, to go on a spree (spending, reading, etc.), to binge
Readings
- Korean:
- eo
Spanish
- pesca
Portuguese
- pesca
- pescaria
French
- pêcher (en masse)
- pêcherie
| 588 | A Guide To Reading and Writing Japanese (Florence Sakade) |
| 483 | A Guide To Reading and Writing Japanese 3rd edition (Henshall, Seeley and De Groot) |
| 459 | A Guide To Remembering Japanese Characters (Kenneth G. Henshall) |
| 628 | A New Dictionary of Kanji Usage |
| 2684 | Classic Nelson (Andrew Nelson) |
| 850 | Essential Kanji (P.G. O’Neill) |
| 707 | Japanese Kanji Flashcards (Max Hodges and Tomoko Okazaki) |
| 2086 | Japanese Names (P.G. O’Neill) |
| 699 | Kanji and Kana (Spahn and Hadamitzky) |
| 712 | Kanji and Kana, 2nd Edition (Spahn and Hadamitzky) |
| 914 | Kanji in Context (Nishiguchi and Kono) |
| 1240 | Kodansha Compact Kanji Guide |
| 856 | Kodansha Kanji Dictionary (Jack Halpern) |
| 492 | Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary (Jack Halpern) |
| 631 | Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary, 2nd Edition (Jack Halpern) |
| 174 | Les Kanjis dans la tete (Yves Maniette) |
| 18101 | Morohashi |
| 698 | New Japanese English Character Dictionary (Jack Halpern) |
| 3309 | New Nelson (John Haig) |
| 172 | Remembering The Kanji (James Heisig) |
| 184 | Remembering The Kanji, 6th edition (James Heisig) |
| 616 | Tuttle Kanji Cards (Alexander Kask) |
| 340 | 2001 Kanji |
| 3a11.1 | The Kanji Dictionary |
| 1-3-11 | SKIP code |
| 3713.6 | Four corner code |
| 1-21-89 | JIS X 0208-1997 kuten code |
| 6f01 | Unicode hex code |