Talk:鰐

わに
The current version has the following example for the sense of “shark”: It is not a good example, because the Chinese character 鰐 means crocodiles and there is no consensus on whether わに in  means a crocodile or a shark. It can rather be an example of the sense of “crocodile”. — T AKASUGI Shinji (talk) 11:43, 10 May 2016 (UTC)
 * 鰐 五各反 和尓
 * 鰐 五各反 和尓


 * Only just saw this. :)
 * Daijirin gives the following:
 * （２）サメ類の古名. 「海の―を欺きて言ひしく/古事記（上）」
 * This is a modernized rendering of the text in the Kojiki. I don't have access to a 原文 version; @Shinji, does this 海の sentence make a better case for the "shark" sense?  And can you find a 原文 version of this quote?  Or are you happy with the modernized spelling?  ‑‑ Eiríkr Útlendi │Tala við mig 18:17, 22 November 2017 (UTC)
 * Wikipedia explains it in detail:  and . — T AKASUGI Shinji (talk) 19:07, 22 November 2017 (UTC)