珊瑚

Wikipedia has articles on:

• 珊瑚 (Written Standard Chinese^?)
• 珊瑚 (Cantonese)
• sân-fù (Hakka)
• dăng-hù (Eastern Min)
• san-ô͘ (Southern Min)

Borrowed from an Iranian language in Central Asia during the Han Dynasty, probably Khotanese sam̥gga- (“stone”). Compare Modern Persian سنگ (sang, “stone”).

珊瑚

1. coral

   • （罽賓國）出封牛、水牛、象、大狗、沐猴、孔爵、珠璣、珊瑚、虎魄、璧流離。 [Classical Chinese, trad.]
     （罽宾国）出封牛、水牛、象、大狗、沐猴、孔爵、珠玑、珊瑚、虎魄、璧流离。 [Classical Chinese, simp.]

     From: The Book of Han, circa 1^st century CE

     (Jìbīn guó) chū fēngniú, shuǐniú, xiàng, dàgǒu, mùhóu, kǒngjué, zhūjī, shānhú, hǔpò, bìliúlí.

     (The country of Jibin in the Western Regions) produces bison, buffalo, elephants, big dogs (kuchis?), macaques, peacocks, jewels, corals, ambers and cat's eyes.

Japanese Wikipedia has an article on:

サンゴ

Wikipedia ^ja

English Wikipedia has an article on:

Coral

Wikipedia

Ultimately from Middle Chinese 珊瑚 (MC san hu). First cited in Japanese in a text from 892.^[1]

• (Tokyo) さんご (Atamadaka – )^[2][3]
• IPA^(key):

珊(さん)瑚(ご) or 珊瑚(サンゴ) • (sango) 

1. coral
   • 2022 April 26, 安(あ)倍(べ)晋(しん)三(ぞう) (Abe Shinzō)<t:Shinzō Abe>, Twitter‎, archived from the original on 2022-10-28:

     相(あい)変(か)わらずの朝(あさ)日(ひ)新(しん)聞(ぶん)。珊(さん)瑚(ご)は大(たい)切(せつ)に。

     Aikawarazu no Asahi Shinbun. Sango wa taisetsu ni.

     The Asahi Shimbun has not changed a bit. Value a coral.

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

珊瑚 • (sanho) (hangeul 산호)

1. hanja form^? of 산호 (“coral”)

Cognate with Japanese 珊(さん)瑚(ご) (sango).

珊(さん)瑚(ぐ) (sangu) 

1. coral

珊瑚

1. chữ Hán form of san hô (“coral”).