石斑魚

Japanese

Kanji in this term
石	斑	魚

Noun

石斑魚 (hiragana うぐい, romaji ugui)

1. the Japanese dace, also known as the big-scaled redfin: Tribolodon hakonensis, an edible fish in family Cyprinidae

Usage notes

This three-kanji spelling is an example of jukujikun. As with many less-common plant and animal names, this word is more often spelled in katakana as ウグイ.

Alternative forms

• ウグイ
• 鯎

Synonyms

• 丸太 (まるた, maruta)

See also

• Cyprinidae on Wikipedia.Wikipedia:Cyprinidae
• ウグイ on the Japanese Wikipedia.ja.Wikipedia:ウグイ

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Mandarin

simpl.		石斑鱼
trad.		石斑魚

Noun

石斑魚 (traditional, Pinyin shíbānyú, simplified 石斑鱼)

1. grouper

石斑魚 (grouper)

References

• "石斑魚" (in Mandarin), Guoyu Cidian On-line Mandarin Dictionary (國語辭典). URL accessed on 2008-04-04.