鮟鱇

Chinese
trad. (鮟鱇) 鮟 鱇
simp. (𩽾𩾌) 𩽾 𩾌

Etymology

Orthographic borrowing from Japanese 鮟 (あん)鱇 (こう) (ankō).

Pronunciation

Noun

鮟鱇

  1. anglerfish; monkfish

Synonyms
  • 琵琶魚／琵琶鱼
  • 老頭魚／老头鱼

Japanese
鮟鱇 (ankō): an anglerfish, a goosefish, a monkfish.
Kanji in this term
鮟 鱇
あん
Hyōgaiji		 こう
Hyōgaiji
on’yomi kan’yōon

Etymology

/anɡoː/ → /ankoː/

Unknown.

Various theories of the origin of あんこう (ankō) exist, such as from あんぐり (anguri) or あぐり (aguri, “agape, with one's mouth wide open”),[1][2] perhaps related to Korean 아귀 (agwi, “anglerfish”). The kanji spelling is an Edo-period coinage, found for example in the 1709 biology text 大和本草 (Yamato Honzō, “Japanese Biology”), formed from earlier ateji (当て字) 安康 (ankō) by adding the 魚 (“fish”) radical to each of the ateji characters. The current 鮟鱇 form has replaced the earlier 安康 form.

Pronunciation

Noun

鮟鱇 (hiragana あんこう, katakana アンコウ, rōmaji ankō, historical hiragana あんかう)

  1. an anglerfish, a monkfish, a goosefish

Usage notes

As with many terms that name organisms, this term is often spelled in katakana, especially in biological contexts, as アンコウ.

References
  1. フリーランス雑学ライダーズ編『あて字のおもしろ雑学』 p.47 1988年 永岡書店
  2. アンコウ: 語源, Japanese Wikipedia
  3. 1998, NHK日本語発音アクセント辞典 (NHK Japanese Pronunciation Accent Dictionary) (in Japanese), Tōkyō: NHK, →ISBN
  4. 2006, 大辞林 (Daijirin), Third Edition (in Japanese), Tōkyō: Sanseidō, →ISBN
  5. 1997, 新明解国語辞典 (Shin Meikai Kokugo Jiten), Fifth Edition (in Japanese), Tōkyō: Sanseidō, →ISBN

Korean
Hanja in this term
鮟鱇

Noun

鮟鱇 • (an-gang, McCune-Reischauer: an'gang, Yale: ankang) (hangeul 안강)

  1. Hanja form? of 안강 (“anglerfish; monkfish”).

Synonyms
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