Chinese

Noun

水母

1. jellyfish   (Classifier: 隻／只; 條／条)

Synonyms

• 海蜇 (hǎizhé)

Japanese

Pronunciation

• (Irregular reading)
• (Tokyo) くらげ [kùrágé] (Heiban - [0])^[1]
• IPA^(key): [kɯᵝɾ̠a̠ɡ̃e̞]

Alternative forms

• 海月

Noun

水母 ‎(hiragana くらげ, katakana クラゲ, romaji kurage)

1. jellyfish

Usage notes

As with many terms that name organisms, this term is often spelled in katakana in biological contexts, as クラゲ.

The kanji are jukujikun.

References

1. ↑ 1998, NHK日本語発音アクセント辞典 (NHK Japanese Pronunciation Accent Dictionary) (in Japanese), Tōkyō: NHK, ISBN 978-4-14-011112-3