鮏

鮏 (Kangxi radical 195, 魚+5, 16 strokes, cangjie input 弓火竹手一 (NFHQM), composition ⿰魚生)

• Kangxi Dictionary: page 1468, character 11
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 46071
• Dae Jaweon: page 2001, character 17
• Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 7, page 4681, character 12
• Unihan data for U+9B8F

鮏

1. smell of fish
2. This term needs a translation to English. Please help out and add a translation, then remove the text {{rfdef}}.

• Dictionary of Chinese Character Variants (教育部異體字字典), C17218

(Hyōgai kanji)

• Go-on: しょう (shō)^{←しやう (syau, historical)}
• Kan-on: せい (sei)
• Kun: なまぐさい (namagusai, 鮏い)、なまぐさ (namagusa, 鮏)、さけ (sake, 鮏)、しゃけ (shake, 鮏)^{←しやけ (syake, 鮏, historical)}

Originally borrowed from Ainu サㇰイベ (sak ibe, “salmon”, literally “summer + eat”, in reference to how the fish would be caught and eaten in the summer), or possible alternative unattested compound サㇰエㇷ゚ (sak ep, literally “summer + food”).

• 鮭 (most common)

• (Tokyo) さけ (Atamadaka – )^[1][2]
• IPA^(key):

鮏(さけ) • (sake) 

1. Alternative spelling of 鮭: salmon

Originally borrowed from Ainu シャケンベ (shakembe),^[3] apparently as a dialectal variation or corruption of Ainu サㇰイベ (sak ibe, “salmon”, literally “summer + eat”), or of possible alternative unattested compound サㇰエㇷ゚ (sak ep, literally “summer + food”).

• 鮭 (most common)

• (Tokyo) しゃけ (Atamadaka – )^[1][2]
• IPA^(key):

鮏(しゃけ) • (shake) 

1. Alternative spelling of 鮭: salmon

Root stem of adjective 生臭い, 腥い (namagusai, “smelling of fish, meat, or blood; stinky, bad-smelling”),^[3][1] itself a compound of 生 (nama, “raw, uncooked”) +‎ 臭い (kusa, “stink, bad smell”, root stem of 臭い kusai, “stinky, bad-smelling”). The kusa changes to gusa as an instance of rendaku (連濁)..

• 生臭 (most common), 腥 (rare)

• (Tokyo) なまぐさ (Heiban – )^[1]
• IPA^(key):

鮏(なまぐさ) • (namagusa) 

1. a smell of fish, meat, or blood
2. a stink, a bad smell