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Jp 
Fr 
Key - the fish - 魚
| 鮪 | まぐろ | – Tuna - The fish hard to catch, to have (有 = to have) |
| 鯨 | くじら | – Whale – The "capital" fish (京 from 東京 = Tokyo, the eastern 東 capital 京) |
| 鰯 | いわし | – Sardine - The "weak" fish, easy to catch (弱い = weak) |
| 鮃 | ひらめ | – Turbot - The "flat" fish (平ら = flat) |
| 舌鮃 | したびらめ | – Sole - The "flat" fish, flat as a tongue? (舌 = the tongue or 下 = under) |
| 鰈 | かれい | – Dab – The fish which "fall" - towards the sand - like a leaf (葉 to be buried, hidden in the sand) |
| 鮹 | たこ | – Octopus – The fish whose tentacles drop along the body (肖 : 月 the body, ⺌ divided) |
| 鯣 | するめ | – Dried Cuttlefish - ....dried in the sun (易 = the sun and its reflections) |
| 鯖 | さば | – Mackerel – The "blue-green backed" fish (青い = blue-green) |
| 鮟 | あんこう | – Monkfish – The "quiet, peaceful" fish (peaceful 安, like woman 女 under a roof 宀) |
| 鮭 | さけ | – Salmon - The fish climbing up the rivers inland (圭 = the earth 土 on the earth 土) |
| 鯉 | こい | – Carp – The fish raised in fields of villages (里 ＝the village : the earth 土 and the ricefield 田) |
| 鮎 | あゆ | – Trout – The fish of soothsaying (占う = to tell fortune) |
| 鯱 | しゃち | – Killer whale – Teh "tiger" fish (虎 = tiger) |
| 飛魚 | とびうお | – Exocet - The "flying" fish (飛ぶ = to fly) |
| 鱈 | たら | – Cod – The fish of snowy countries (雪 = the snow) |
| 鮑 | あわび | – Abalone – The Shell surrounded like a fetus (包 = a fetus wrapped in a womb) |
| 水母 | くらげ | - Jelly fish – The "mother of water" or "waters" ? (母 = the mother) |
| Jean-Claude MARTIN Marine fish Book Fair Concarneau - Konk-Kerne |
