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Translingual

Han character

(radical 195 +6, 17 strokes, cangjie input 弓火大月 (NFKB), four-corner 24327)

  1. kind of sturgeon, tuna

References

  • KangXi: page 1469, character 21
  • Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 46126
  • Dae Jaweon: page 2002, character 18
  • Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 7, page 4685, character 9
  • Unihan data for U+9BAA

Chinese

trad.
simp.

Glyph origin

Characters in the same phonetic series () (Zhengzhang, 2003) 
Old Chinese
*kɯːʔ
*qʰɯːʔ
*qʰʷɯs
*ɢʷɯʔ, *qʷɯ
*ɢʷɯʔ
*ɢʷɯʔ
*ɢʷɯʔ, *ɢʷɯs
*ɢʷɯs
*ɢʷɯs, *ɡʷɯ
*ɢʷɯs
*ɢʷɯs
*ɢʷɯs
*ɢʷɯs
*ɢʷɯs
*ɢʷɯs
*qʰʷɯːʔ
*qʰʷɯːʔ, *ɡʷɯː
*ɡʷɯː
*ɢraːw, *ɢʷɯːʔ
*ɢʷɯʔ
*ɢʷɯʔ
*ɢʷɯʔ
*qʷɯ
*qʷɯ
*ɡʷɯ

Pronunciation



Rime
Character
Reading # 1/1
Initial () (35)
Final () (18)
Tone (調) Rising (X)
Openness (開合) Closed
Division () Chongniu III
Fanqie
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang
Shangfang
/ɦˠiuɪX/
Pan
Wuyun
/ɦʷᵚiX/
Shao
Rongfen
/ɣiuɪX/
Edwin
Pulleyblank
/ɦjwiX/
Li
Rong
/ɣjuiX/
Wang
Li
/ɣwiX/
Bernard
Karlgren
/wiX/
Expected
Mandarin
Reflex
wěi
Baxter-Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character
Reading # 1/1
Modern
Beijing
(Pinyin)
wěi
Middle
Chinese
‹ hwijX ›
Old
Chinese
/*[ɢ]ʷrəʔ/
English sturgeon

Notes for Old Chinese notations in the Baxter-Sagart system:

* Parentheses "()" indicate uncertain presence;
* Square brackets "[]" indicate uncertain identity, e.g. *[t] as coda may in fact be *-t or *-p;
* Angle brackets "<>" indicate infix;
* Hyphen "-" indicates morpheme boundary;

* Period "." indicates syllable boundary.
Zhengzhang system (2003)
Character
Reading # 1/1
No. 15612
Phonetic
component
Rime
group
Rime
subdivision
0
Corresponding
MC rime
Old
Chinese
/*ɢʷɯʔ/

Definitions

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Japanese

Kanji

(uncommon “Hyōgai” kanji)

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Readings

Pronunciation

Noun

(hiragana まぐろ, katakana マグロ, romaji maguro)

  1. a tuna (type of fish)
    • マンガで分かるLisp (Manga Guide to Lisp)
      みりん。地域猫 (ちいきねこ)最近 (さいきん)までマクロのことをマグロ (おも)っていた。
      Mirin. Chiikineko. Saikin made makuro no koto o maguro to omotteita.
      Mirin: A neighbours' cat. Until recently often confused macros with tuna.

Usage notes

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

Noun

(hiragana しび, romaji shibi)

  1. a tuna (type of fish)

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

Korean

Relative sizes

Hanja

(yu) (hangeul , revised yu, McCune-Reischauer yu, Yale yu)

  1. (다랑어) tuna, tunny

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