Kanji List

鯨

• kun: くじら
• on: ゲイ
• meaning: whale
• words:

  Word	Reading	Meaning
  鯨	くじら	whale
  捕鯨	ほげい	whaling, whale fishing
  鯨肉	げいにく	whale meat
  ミンク鯨	ミンクくじら, ミンククジラ	minke whale, piked whale (Balaenoptera acutorostrata)
  鯨ろう	げいろう, くじらろう	spermaceti (waxy substance found in the head cavities of sperm whales)
  鯨飲	げいいん	drinking hard, drinking like a fish
  鯨油	げいゆ	whale oil
  白鯨	はくげい	white whale; Moby Dick
  捕鯨船	ほげいせん	whaling ship
  鯨飲馬食	げいいんばしょく	drinking like a fish and eat like a horse, eating mountains of food and drink oceans of liquor