baiji
English edit
Pronunciation edit
Etymology 1 edit
From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of Mandarin 白鱀豚/白𬶨豚 (báijìtún).
Noun edit
baiji (plural baijis or baiji)
- A freshwater dolphin (†Lipotes vexillifer), only found in the Yangtze River. Declared functionally extinct in 2006.
- 2021 March 30, J. B. MacKinnon, “An Entire Group of Whales Has Somehow Escaped Human Attention”, in The Atlantic[1]:
- In 2006, he made a research trip to China to look for the baiji, also known as the Yangtze River dolphin. He and his colleagues searched the legendary river’s entire 1,700-kilometer main channel, twice. They counted nearly 20,000 large shipping vessels and more than a thousand fishing boats, but no river dolphins. At the end of their quest, they declared that the species was likely extinct, a conclusion now widely supported. For all the terrible harm that humans have done to cetaceans, drastically reducing their abundance and range, the baiji was the first of them that we ever completely extinguished. It happened in the 21st century.
Synonyms edit
- Chinese river dolphin, Chinese white dolphin, whitefin dolphin, Yangtze dolphin, Yangtze River dolphin
Translations edit
freshwater dolphin
Etymology 2 edit
Noun edit
baiji (uncountable)
- Alternative form of bai ji
Finnish edit
Etymology edit
From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of Mandarin 白鱀豚/白𬶨豚 (báijìtún).
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
baiji
- (dated) Synonym of kiinanjokidelfiini.
Declension edit
Inflection of baiji (Kotus type 5/risti, no gradation) | ||||
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nominative | baiji | baijit | ||
genitive | baijin | baijien | ||
partitive | baijia | baijeja | ||
illative | baijiin | baijeihin | ||
singular | plural | |||
nominative | baiji | baijit | ||
accusative | nom. | baiji | baijit | |
gen. | baijin | |||
genitive | baijin | baijien | ||
partitive | baijia | baijeja | ||
inessive | baijissa | baijeissa | ||
elative | baijista | baijeista | ||
illative | baijiin | baijeihin | ||
adessive | baijilla | baijeilla | ||
ablative | baijilta | baijeilta | ||
allative | baijille | baijeille | ||
essive | baijina | baijeina | ||
translative | baijiksi | baijeiksi | ||
abessive | baijitta | baijeitta | ||
instructive | — | baijein | ||
comitative | See the possessive forms below. |
French edit
Etymology edit
From Mandarin 白鱀豚/白𬶨豚 (báijìtún).
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
baiji m (plural baijis)