日本沼虾

Traditional form:

日本沼蝦

Pinyin (reading):

Rìběnzhǎoxiā

Definitions:

• oriental river prawn (Macrobrachium nipponense), a species of freshwater shrimp, also called 青蝦／青虾 (qīngxiā)

Characters:

• 日 - sun; day; daytime
• 本 - root, origin, source; basis
• 沼 - lake, pond, swamp
• 虾 - shrimp, prawn

Traditional characters:

• 日 - sun; day; daytime
• 本 - root, origin, source; basis
• 沼 - lake, pond, swamp
• 蝦 - shrimp, prawn