Illustration: At an open-front fish shop on a Japanese shopping street, an aproned fishmonger lifts a whole silver fish from a bed of crushed ice for a customer to inspect. Trays of other whole fish, shellfish, and cut fillets fill the counter, with a work sink and chopping board behind him.

JLPT N4nounLevel estimated by Bebop

魚さかな屋や

sakanaya

fish shop, fishmonger

Example sentences

  1. 彼かれは魚屋さかなやです。

    He is a fish dealer.

    Tatoeba · CC BY 2.0 FR · Source

  2. 魚屋さかなやの前まえでハエがぶんぶん飛とんでいる。

    There is a fly buzzing in front of the fish shop.

    Tatoeba · CC BY 2.0 FR · Source

  3. あの魚屋さかなやではぴんぴん生いきている魚さかなを売うっている。

    They sell live fish at the fish store.

    Tatoeba · CC BY 2.0 FR · Source

Kanji in 魚屋

  • 魚fishOnギョKunうお・さかな
  • 屋roof; houseOnオクKunや

A word like this on every new tab

The Bebop Chrome extension shows one illustrated Japanese word each time you open a new tab in Chrome, with its reading, meaning, kanji and three example sentences. Choose any mix of levels from N5 to beyond N1. It’s free, with no account.

The Bebop new tab showing 音楽, music, over an illustration of a family playing music at home, with three example sentences
Add to Chrome Free on the Chrome Web Store
For Chrome on a computer. See it on the Chrome Web Store