鯨肉

1. Origins, structure, and basic meaning

• Structure: 鯨肉 combines 鯨, whale, with 肉, meat, and is read げいにく.
• Basic usage: It denotes whale meat as food, as in 鯨肉を切る and 鯨肉を使った料理.

2. Common pitfalls and similar expressions

• Animal and food
  • 鯨 denotes the animal, while 鯨肉 specifically denotes its meat as an ingredient.
• Compound reading
  • In this compound, 鯨 is not read くじら but げい, making the full reading げいにく.