sayori
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 1.19 in modern English
9
Scrabble Score
6
Letters
2
Syllables
6
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
A slender, surface-dwelling fish of the species Hyporhamphus sajori in the halfbeak family, native to coastal waters influenced by warm currents.
name
A transliteration of the Japanese female given name 小夜里.
Example Sentences
- "Sashimi came next. It contained two kinds of what our waitress called puffy tuna. It was toro, the rich, pink, most prized part of the fish, surrounded by tile fish and tiny little strips of a seasonal specialty fish called sayori."
- "Earlier in the meal, I especially enjoyed the fresh fish course, an arrangement of delicate, silvery sayori with plump, rosy clams called aoyagi, which are briny but sweet."
- "I loved the almost transparent lightness of sayori, or needlefish, contrasted with the mild brininess of the kohada, which Mr. [Tatsuya] Nagata calls spotted sardine and which I’ve also seen referred to as gizzard shad."
- "“Do you have any of Hiroshige’s fish?” [Tom] Kretchmar asked. [Tomomi] Seki disappeared into a back office and returned with several prints of fish. “Beautiful,” Kretchmar said, identifying the fish as sayori and amadai."
- "We tried a lot of seasonal fish like sayori, silverfish and some squid."
- "“It may be hard for Americans to understand,” said Sayori Iwata, a Mitsukoshi spokeswoman, “but in Japan, it’s considered beautiful to sacrifice yourself for the service of others.”"