At 04:52 +0200 23.11.2000, Joel Bradshaw wrote: >11a15.1 SHOO, fuka 'shark' [no compounds] >[not found in my Chinese dictionaries] Xiang3 'dried fish' in Chinese, usually written like quan2 'fist' with a fish at the bottom instead of a hand. The meaning 'shark' is purely Japanese. Olli Salmi