폐어

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Korean

 폐어류 on Korean Wikipedia

Etymology

Sino-Korean word from 肺魚, from (lung) + (fish)

Pronunciation

  • (SK Standard/Seoul) IPA(key): ~
  • Phonetic hangul:
    • Though still prescribed in Standard Korean, most speakers in both Koreas no longer distinguish vowel length.
Romanizations
Revised Romanization?pyeeo
Revised Romanization (translit.)?pyeeo
McCune–Reischauer?p'yeŏ
Yale Romanization?phyēy.e

Noun

폐어 (pyeeo) (hanja 肺魚)

  1. a lungfish