Illustration: At a Japanese tidal flat during low tide, a child crouches beside a shallow pool holding a freshly uncovered clam in a wet palm. Its two ridged shell halves gape slightly around living tissue, and a small siphon sends a sudden jet of water toward the child’s cheek.

JLPT N3nounLevel estimated by Bebop

貝かい

kai

shellfish

In compounds, 貝 can be read がい. Note written by AI.

Example sentences

  1. 貝かいは好すきではない。

    I don’t like shellfish.

    Tatoeba · CC BY 2.0 FR · Source

  2. 今日きょうはホタテ貝がいがお買かい得どくですよ。

    Scallops are on sale today.

    Tatoeba · CC BY 2.0 FR · Source

  3. 対たいになる貝かいには同おなじく対たいになる絵えが描えがかれた。

    Each pair of shells was painted with a matching pair of pictures.

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

Kanji in 貝

  • 貝shellfishOnバイKunかい

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