Illustration: At a Japanese aquarium touch-free observation tank, a squid hovers just above the sandy bottom. Its elongated mantle, paired triangular fins, large side eye, eight shorter arms, and two longer feeding tentacles are clearly visible.

JLPT N3nounLevel estimated by Bebop

イカ

ika

squid, cuttlefish

Example sentences

  1. イカには腕うでが10本ほんある。

    A squid has ten arms.

    Tatoeba · CC BY 2.0 FR · Source

  2. イカには10本ほんの足あしがある。

    A squid has ten arms.

    Tatoeba · CC BY 2.0 FR · Source

  3. 同様どうように海老えびの代かわりにイカ・かに・ほたて等などを用もちいたものもある。

    Instead of shrimps, squids, crabs, scallops, and so on may be used.

    KFTT corpus (NICT), Wikipedia · CC BY-SA 3.0 · Source

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