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Chinese
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field; farm
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aquatic snail
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simp. and trad. (田螺)
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田
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螺
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alternative forms
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塍螺 Min Nan
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Pronunciation
- Mandarin
- Cantonese
- Hakka
- Southern Min
- (Hokkien: Xiamen, Zhangzhou, Kaohsiung, Taipei, Tainan, Taichung, Yilan, Magong, Hsinchu, Singapore)
- (Hokkien: Quanzhou, Yongchun, Lukang, Sanxia, Kinmen, Hsinchu, Singapore)
- (Hokkien: variant in Taiwan, Singapore)
- (Teochew)
- Wu
Noun
田螺
- river snail (a generic term referring to freshwater snails)
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Japanese
タニシ on Japanese Wikipedia
Noun
田螺 or 田螺 • (tanishi)
- river snail
Usage notes
As with many terms that name organisms, this term is often spelled in katakana, especially in biological contexts (where katakana is customary), as タニシ.