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表層形
落魚
オチウオ
名詞

落魚 (オチウオ)

Ochiuo · おちうお — fish going downstream (to spawn); dead fish; fish that moves into deeper waters (to avoid the cold)

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落魚 in rōmaji: ochiuo.

名詞 普通名詞 一般 *
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Updated: 2026年8月12日
📖 Grammar Information
表層形 (Surface)
落魚
見出し語 (Lemma)
落ち魚
読み (Reading)
オチウオ
品詞 (POS)
名詞・普通名詞・一般・*
活用型 (Conj. Type)
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活用形 (Conj. Form)
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表記 (Orthography)
落魚
読み・基本形
オチウオ
表記・基本形
落魚
見出し語の読み
オチウオ
💡 English Meaning

落魚 means “fish going downstream (to spawn); dead fish; fish that moves into deeper waters (to avoid the cold)” — full definition & examples →

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The surface form (落魚) is the exact text as it appeared in the corpus — it may be conjugated or inflected. The lemma (落ち魚) is the dictionary base form. For example, 食べた (surface) has the lemma 食べる.
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The reading shows the pronunciation in hiragana or katakana as recorded by UniDic. For kanji entries this is the standard reading of this specific surface form — which may differ from other readings of the same kanji.
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