鮪

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See also: 鲔
鮪 U+9BAA, 鮪
CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-9BAA
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 		CJK Unified Ideographs 鮫 →

Translingual

Han character

鮪 (Kangxi radical 195, 魚+6, 17 strokes, cangjie input 弓火大月 (NFKB), four-corner 24327, composition ⿰魚有)

  1. kind of sturgeon,

Derived characters

References

  • Kangxi Dictionary: page 1469, character 21
  • Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 46126
  • Dae Jaweon: page 2002, character 18
  • Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 7, page 4685, character 9
  • Unihan data for U+9BAA

Chinese

trad. 鮪
simp. 鲔

Glyph origin

Characters in the same phonetic series (又) (Zhengzhang, 2003) 
Old Chinese
絠 *kɯːʔ
醢 *qʰɯːʔ
珛 *qʰʷɯs
栯 *ɢʷɯʔ, *qʷɯ
有 *ɢʷɯʔ
友 *ɢʷɯʔ
右 *ɢʷɯʔ, *ɢʷɯs
宥 *ɢʷɯs
囿 *ɢʷɯs, *ɡʷɯ
侑 *ɢʷɯs
酭 *ɢʷɯs
姷 *ɢʷɯs
又 *ɢʷɯs
佑 *ɢʷɯs
祐 *ɢʷɯs
賄 *qʰʷɯːʔ
蛕 *qʰʷɯːʔ, *ɡʷɯː
烠 *ɡʷɯː
倄 *ɢraːw, *ɢʷɯːʔ
鮪 *ɢʷɯʔ
洧 *ɢʷɯʔ
痏 *ɢʷɯʔ
郁 *qʷɯ
戫 *qʷɯ
哊 *ɡʷɯ

Pronunciation

Rime
Character 鮪
Reading # 1/1
Initial (聲) 云 (35)
Final (韻) 脂 (18)
Tone (調) Rising (X)
Openness (開合) Closed
Division (等) III
Fanqie 榮美切
Baxter hwijX
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang
Shangfang 		/ɦˠiuɪX/
Pan
Wuyun 		/ɦʷᵚiX/
Shao
Rongfen 		/ɣiuɪX/
Edwin
Pulleyblank 		/ɦjwiX/
Li
Rong 		/ɣjuiX/
Wang
Li 		/ɣwiX/
Bernhard
Karlgren 		/wiX/
Expected
Mandarin
Reflex 		wěi
Expected
Cantonese
Reflex 		wai5
Baxter–Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character 鮪
Reading # 1/1
Modern
Beijing
(Pinyin) 		wěi
Middle
Chinese 		‹ hwijX ›
Old
Chinese 		/*ʷrəʔ/
English sturgeon

Notes for Old Chinese notations in the Baxter–Sagart system:

* Parentheses "()" indicate uncertain presence;
* Square brackets "" indicate uncertain identity, e.g. * as coda may in fact be *-t or *-p;
* Angle brackets "<>" indicate infix;
* Hyphen "-" indicates morpheme boundary;

* Period "." indicates syllable boundary.
Zhengzhang system (2003)
Character 鮪
Reading # 1/1
No. 15612
Phonetic
component 		又
Rime
group 		之
Rime
subdivision 		0
Corresponding
MC rime 		洧
Old
Chinese 		/*ɢʷɯʔ/

Definitions

鮪

  1. Chinese paddlefish or Chinese swordfish; Psephurus gladius
    Synonym: 鱘 / 鲟 (xún)
  2. tuna

Synonyms

Dialectal synonyms of 鮪魚 (“tuna”)
Variety Location Words
Formal (Written Standard Chinese) 鮪, 鮪魚, 金槍魚
Northeastern Mandarin Taiwan 鮪魚
Cantonese Guangzhou 吞那魚, 青干
Hong Kong 吞拿魚
Macau 吞拿魚, 亞冬魚
Hakka Pingtung (Neipu; S. Sixian) 串仔
Pingtung (Wuluo, Ligang; S. Sixian) 串仔
Kaohsiung (Meinong; S. Sixian) 刀鯧
Kaohsiung (Shanlin; S. Sixian) 串仔
Southern Min Taipei (Wanhua) 串仔魚
New Taipei (Tamsui) 串仔
Kaohsiung 串仔
Kaohsiung (Cijin) 串仔
Kaohsiung (Dalinpu, Siaogang) 串仔
Yilan 串仔魚
Changhua (Lukang) 串仔
Taichung 串仔
Taichung (Wuqi) 串仔魚
Tainan 串仔魚, 串仔
Tainan (Anping) 串仔
Taitung 串仔
Hsinchu 串仔魚
Penghu (Magong) 串仔
Penghu (Xiyu) 串仔

Compounds

Japanese

Kanji

鮪

(Hyōgai kanji)

  1. tuna

Readings

Etymology 1

Kanji in this term
鮪
まぐろ
Hyōgai
kun'yomi

Possible compounds include:

  • 目 (ma, “eye, bound form”) +‎ 黒 (kuro, “black”), in reference to their eye color.[1][2]
  • 真 (ma, “true”) +‎ 黒 (kuro, “black”), in reference to the color of their back.[1][2]

The kuro changes to guro as an instance of rendaku (連濁).

Pronunciation

Noun

鮪(まぐろ) or 鮪(マグロ) • (maguro) 

  1. a tuna (fish of the genus Thunnus)
    Hypernym: 鯖 (saba)
  2. (colloquial) Short for 黒鮪 (kuromaguro): a Pacific bluefin tuna, Thunnus orientalis
  3. (slang) a dead fish (a sexual partner who lies flat during sex)
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 マグロ.

Derived terms
Derived terms
Idioms
See also

Etymology 2

Kanji in this term
鮪
しび
Hyōgai
kun'yomi

⟨sibi1⟩ → */sibʲi/ → /ɕibi/

From Old Japanese.

(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)

Noun

鮪(しび) • (shibi) 

  1. (obsolete) a tuna
    Synonym: めじ (meji)
    • 711–712, Kojiki, poem 110:
      意布袁余志(おふをよし)斯毘(しび)都久阿麻余(つくあまよ)斯賀阿禮婆(しがあれば)宇良胡本斯祁牟(うらこほしけむ)斯毘(しび)都久志毘(つくしび) [Man'yōgana]
      大(おふ)魚(を)よししび突(つ)く海人(あま)よ其(し)が離(あ)ればうら恋(ご)ほしけむしび突(つ)く志(し)毘(び) [Modern spelling]
      ouo yoshi shibi tsuku ama yo shi ga areba uragōshikemu shibi tsuku Shibi
      (please add an English translation of this example)
Derived terms
See also

Etymology 3

Kanji in this term
鮪
Hyōgai
irregular

Appears in the Wakan Sansai Zue (1712).

(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)

Noun

鮪(はつ) • (hatsu) 

  1. (obsolete) a tuna
Derived terms

References

  1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 Samuel E. Martin (1987) The Japanese Language Through Time, New Haven, London: Yale University Press, →ISBN
  2. ↑ 2.0 2.1 マグロ／鮪／まぐろ - Gogen Yurai Jiten (in Japanese)
  3. ^ Matsumura, Akira, editor (2006), 大辞林 [Daijirin] (in Japanese), Third edition, Tokyo: Sanseidō, →ISBN
  4. ^ NHK Broadcasting Culture Research Institute, editor (1998), NHK日本語発音アクセント辞典 [NHK Japanese Pronunciation Accent Dictionary] (in Japanese), Tokyo: NHK Publishing, Inc., →ISBN

Korean

Relative sizes

Hanja

鮪 • (yu) (hangeul 유, revised yu, McCune–Reischauer yu, Yale yu)

  1. (다랑어) tuna, tunny

See also

Wikious
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