馬鹿貝

Japanese edit

Kanji in this term
馬	鹿	貝
ば Grade: 2	か Grade: 4	かい > がい Grade: 1
kan’on	kun’yomi

Alternative spellings
馬珂貝バカ貝バカガイ

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バカガイ

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Pronunciation edit

(Tokyo) ばかがい [bàkáꜜgàì] (Nakadaka – [2])^[1]^[2]
IPA^(key): [ba̠ka̠ɡa̠i]

Noun edit

馬(ば)鹿(か)貝(がい) • (bakagai) ^{←ばかがひ (bakagafi)^?}

a trough shell (bivalve), Mactra chinensis Philippi

Usage notes edit

As with many terms that name organisms, this term is often spelled in katakana, especially in biological contexts (where katakana is customary), as バカガイ.

References edit

^ Matsumura, Akira, editor (2006), 大辞林 [Daijirin] (in Japanese), Third edition, Tōkyō: Sanseidō, →ISBN
^ NHK Broadcasting Culture Research Institute, editor (1998), NHK日本語発音アクセント辞典 [NHK Japanese Pronunciation Accent Dictionary] (in Japanese), Tōkyō: NHK Publishing, →ISBN

微小貝データベース: [1]

[DJR-1] Matsumura, Akira, editor (2006), 大辞林 [Daijirin] (in Japanese), Third edition, Tōkyō: Sanseidō, →ISBN

[NHK-2] NHK Broadcasting Culture Research Institute, editor (1998), NHK日本語発音アクセント辞典 [NHK Japanese Pronunciation Accent Dictionary] (in Japanese), Tōkyō: NHK Publishing, →ISBN

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