どじょう – vocab dash

どじょう

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Meanings

Noun

1. loach (any fish of family Cobitidae) (Usually kana)

2. weather loach (Misgurnus anguillicaudatus); pond loach

Other spellings

泥鰌どじょう鰌どじょう

Other readings

Kanji in other spellings

Pitch accent

どじょう

Used in vocabulary

Japanese eight-barbel loach (Lefua echigonia)

Noun

blotched snakehead (Channa maculata)

Noun

Niwaella delicata (species of loach)

Noun

Cobitis takatsuensis (species of loach)

Noun

Japanese striped loach (Cobitis biwae)

Noun

loach soup

Noun

Examples2

いつも柳やなぎの下したに泥鰌どじょうは居おらぬ。

A fox is not caught twice in the same snare.

柳やなぎの下したの泥鰌どじょう。

A fox isn't caught twice in the same snare.