袋鼠

Chinese edit

FWOTD – 5 November 2020

		a pouch; bag; sack a pouch; bag; sack; pocket	rat; mouse
trad. (袋鼠)		袋	鼠
simp. ^#(袋鼠)		袋	鼠

袋鼠

Pronunciation edit

Mandarin
(Pinyin): dàishǔ

(Zhuyin): ㄉㄞˋ ㄕㄨˇ
Cantonese (Jyutping): doi⁶ syu²
Hakka (Meixian, Guangdong): toi⁴ cu³
Southern Min (Hokkien, POJ): tēr-chhír / tē-chhú / tē-chhí / tāi-chhú

Mandarin
- (Standard Chinese)⁺
  - Hanyu Pinyin: dàishǔ
  - Zhuyin: ㄉㄞˋ ㄕㄨˇ
  - Tongyong Pinyin: dàishǔ
  - Wade–Giles: tai⁴-shu³
  - Yale: dài-shǔ
  - Gwoyeu Romatzyh: dayshuu
  - Palladius: дайшу (dajšu)
  - Sinological IPA ^(key): /taɪ̯⁵¹ ʂu²¹⁴⁻²¹⁽⁴⁾/
Cantonese
- (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)⁺
  - Jyutping: doi⁶ syu²
  - Yale: doih syú
  - Cantonese Pinyin: doi⁶ sy²
  - Guangdong Romanization: doi⁶ xu²
  - Sinological IPA ^(key): /tɔːi̯²² syː³⁵/
Hakka
- (Meixian)
  - Guangdong: toi⁴ cu³
  - Sinological IPA: /tʰoɪ⁵³⁻⁵⁵ t͡sʰu³¹/
Southern Min
- (Hokkien: Quanzhou)
  - Pe̍h-ōe-jī: tēr-chhír
  - Tâi-lô: tēr-tshír
  - IPA (Quanzhou): /tə⁴¹⁻²² t͡sʰɯ⁵⁵⁴/
- (Hokkien: Taipei, Xiamen)
  - Pe̍h-ōe-jī: tē-chhú
  - Tâi-lô: tē-tshú
  - Phofsit Daibuun: dexzhuo
  - IPA (Xiamen): /te²²⁻²¹ t͡sʰu⁵³/
  - IPA (Taipei): /te³³⁻¹¹ t͡sʰu⁵³/
- (Hokkien: Kaohsiung, Zhangzhou)
  - Pe̍h-ōe-jī: tē-chhí
  - Tâi-lô: tē-tshí
  - Phofsit Daibuun: dexchie
  - IPA (Kaohsiung): /te³³⁻²¹ t͡sʰi⁴¹/
  - IPA (Zhangzhou): /te²²⁻²¹ t͡sʰi⁵³/
- (Hokkien: Xiamen)
  - Pe̍h-ōe-jī: tāi-chhú
  - Tâi-lô: tāi-tshú
  - Phofsit Daibuun: daixzhuo
  - IPA (Xiamen): /tai²²⁻²¹ t͡sʰu⁵³/

Noun edit

袋鼠

kangaroo (Classifier: 隻／只)
- 有一天，動物園裡的袋鼠「越獄」成功了，動物園的管理員們如臨大敵，召開了一個緊急會議，討論為什麼袋鼠會逃跑成功，有一個員工認為是籠子高度太低，而讓袋鼠爬走了。 [MSC, trad.]
  有一天，动物园里的袋鼠「越狱」成功了，动物园的管理员们如临大敌，召开了一个紧急会议，讨论为什么袋鼠会逃跑成功，有一个员工认为是笼子高度太低，而让袋鼠爬走了。 [MSC, simp.]
  From: 2010, 高紹軒, 《天啊！我把薪水變多了》, page 55
  Yǒu yī tiān, dòngwùyuán lǐ de dàishǔ “yuèyù” chénggōng le, dòngwùyuán de guǎnlǐyuánmen rúlíndàdí, zhàokāi le yī ge jǐnjí huìyì, tǎolùn wèishénme dàishǔ huì táopǎo chénggōng, yǒu yī ge yuángōng rènwéi shì lóngzi gāodù tài dī, ér ràng dàishǔ pá zǒu le. [Pinyin]
  One day, a kangaroo in the zoo successfully "escaped from prison". The zookeepers kept their guards up and convened for an emergency meeting to discuss why the kangaroo succeeded in escaping. One of the staff members thought that the cage was too short and allowed the kangaroo to crawl out.

Derived terms edit

叢林袋鼠／丛林袋鼠 (cónglín dàishǔ)
小袋鼠 (xiǎodàishǔ)
沙袋鼠 (shādàishǔ)
短尾矮袋鼠 (duǎnwěi ǎidàishǔ)
紅腹袋鼠／红腹袋鼠 (hóngfù dàishǔ)
袋鼠夾克／袋鼠夹克 (dàishǔ jiākè)
袋鼠審判／袋鼠审判
袋鼠法庭

Japanese edit

Kanji in this term
袋	鼠
ふくろ Grade: S	ねずみ Hyōgaiji
kun’yomi

Japanese Wikipedia has an article on:

袋鼠

English Wikipedia has an article on:

Opossum

袋鼠 (fukuro nezumi): an opossum on a fence.

Etymology edit

Compound of 袋 (fukuro, “bag”) +‎ 鼠 (nezumi, “mouse, rat”).^[1]^[2]^[3]^[4]

First cited to a biology glossary from 1884.^[2]

Pronunciation edit

(Tokyo) ふくろねずみ [fùkúró néꜜzùmì] (Nakadaka – [4])^[4]
IPA^(key): [ɸɯ̟ᵝkɯ̟ᵝɾo̞ ne̞zɨᵝmʲi]

Noun edit

袋(ふくろ)鼠(ねずみ) • (fukuro nezumi)

[from 1884] (uncommon, possibly archaic) opossum
Synonym: (common) オポッサム (opossamu)

References edit

^ Shinmura, Izuru, editor (1998), 広辞苑 (in Japanese), Fifth edition, Tōkyō: Iwanami Shoten, →ISBN
↑ ^2.0 ^2.1 “袋鼠”, in 日本国語大辞典 (Nihon Kokugo Daijiten, “Nihon Kokugo Daijiten”)‎^[1] (in Japanese), concise edition, Tōkyō: Shogakukan, 2000
^ “袋鼠”, in デジタル大辞泉‎^[2] (in Japanese), Tōkyō: Shogakukan, updated roughly every four months
↑ ^4.0 ^4.1 Matsumura, Akira, editor (2006), 大辞林 (in Japanese), Third edition, Tōkyō: Sanseidō, →ISBN

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