鮟鱇

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ChineseEdit

trad. (鮟鱇)		鮟	鱇
simp. (𩽾𩾌)		𩽾	𩾌

EtymologyEdit

Borrowing from Japanese 鮟鱇 (あんこう) (ankō)

PronunciationEdit

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): ānkāng, ànkāng

  (Zhuyin): ㄢ ㄎㄤ, ㄢˋ ㄎㄤ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): on¹ hong¹

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese, Mainland)
    • Pinyin: ānkāng
    • Zhuyin: ㄢ ㄎㄤ
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: ankang
    • IPA ^(key): /ˀa̠n⁵⁵ kʰɑŋ⁵⁵/
    • Homophones:

      edit edit 安康 鮟鱇／𩽾𩾌

      
      
  • (Standard Chinese, Taiwan)⁺
    • Pinyin: ànkāng
    • Zhuyin: ㄢˋ ㄎㄤ
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: annkang
    • IPA ^(key): /ˀa̠n⁵¹ kʰɑŋ⁵⁵/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou)
    • Jyutping: on¹ hong¹
    • Yale: ōn hōng
    • Cantonese Pinyin: on¹ hong¹
    • Guangdong Romanization: on¹ hong¹
    • IPA ^(key): /ɔːn⁵⁵ hɔːŋ⁵⁵/
    • Homophones:

      edit edit 安康 鮟鱇／𩽾𩾌

NounEdit

鮟鱇

1. anglerfish; monkfish

SynonymsEdit

• 琵琶魚／琵琶鱼
• 老頭魚／老头鱼

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JapaneseEdit

鮟鱇 (ankō): an anglerfish, a goosefish, a monkfish.

Kanji in this term
鮟	鱇
あん Hyōgaiji	こう Hyōgaiji
on'yomi

EtymologyEdit

/angoː/ → /ankoː/

Unknown.

Various theories of the origin of あんこう (ankō) exist, such as from あんぐり (anguri) or あぐり (aguri, “agape, with one's mouth wide open”), perhaps related to Korean 아귀 (agwi, “anglerfish”). The kanji spelling is an Edo-period coinage, found for example in the 1709 biology text 大和本草 (Yamato Honzō, “Japanese Biology”), formed from earlier ateji (当て字) 安康 (ankō) by adding the 魚 (“fish”) radical to each of the ateji characters. The current 鮟鱇 form has replaced the earlier 安康 form.

PronunciationEdit

• On’yomi
• (Tokyo) あ​んこう [áꜜǹkòò] (Atamadaka - [1])
• (Tokyo) あんこ​う [àńkóꜜò] (Nakadaka - [3])
• IPA^(key): [ã̠ŋko̞ː]

NounEdit

鮟鱇 (hiragana あんこう, katakana アンコウ, rōmaji ankō, historical hiragana あんかう)

1. an anglerfish, a monkfish, a goosefish

Usage notesEdit

As with many terms that name organisms, this term is often spelled in katakana in biological contexts, as アンコウ.

ReferencesEdit

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KoreanEdit

Hanja in this term
鮟	鱇

NounEdit

鮟鱇 • (an-gang, McCune-Reischauer: an'gang, Yale: ankang) (hangeul 안강)

1. Hanja form^? of 안강, “anglerfish; monkfish”.

SynonymsEdit

• 아귀 (agwi)