水母

Chinese

		water; river	female; mother
simp. and trad. (水母)		水	母

Etymology

Pronunciation

Mandarin
(Pinyin): shuǐmǔ

(Zhuyin): ㄕㄨㄟˇ ㄇㄨˇ
Cantonese (Jyutping): seoi² mou⁵
Min Nan (POJ): chúi-bú / chúi-bó

Mandarin
- (Standard Chinese)⁺
  - Pinyin: shuǐmǔ [Phonetic: shuímǔ]
  - Zhuyin: ㄕㄨㄟˇ ㄇㄨˇ
  - Gwoyeu Romatzyh: shoeimuu
  - IPA ^(key): /ʂu̯eɪ̯²¹⁴⁻³⁵ mu²¹⁴⁻²¹⁽⁴⁾/
Cantonese
- (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou)⁺
  - Jyutping: seoi² mou⁵
  - Yale: séui móuh
  - Cantonese Pinyin: soey² mou⁵
  - Guangdong Romanization: sêu² mou⁵
  - IPA ^(key): /sɵy̯³⁵ mou̯¹³/
Min Nan
- (Hokkien: Xiamen, Quanzhou, variant in Taiwan)
  - Pe̍h-ōe-jī: chúi-bú
  - Tâi-lô: tsuí-bú
  - Phofsit Daibuun: zuy'buo
  - IPA (Kaohsiung): /t͡sui⁴¹⁻⁴⁴ bu⁴¹/
  - IPA (Quanzhou): /t͡sui⁵⁵⁴⁻²⁴ bu⁵⁵⁴/
  - IPA (Xiamen, Taipei): /t͡sui⁵³⁻⁴⁴ bu⁵³/
- (Hokkien: Zhangzhou, General Taiwanese)
  - Pe̍h-ōe-jī: chúi-bó
  - Tâi-lô: tsuí-bó
  - Phofsit Daibuun: zuy'boir
  - IPA (Zhangzhou, Taipei): /t͡sui⁵³⁻⁴⁴ bo⁵³/
  - IPA (Kaohsiung): /t͡sui⁴¹⁻⁴⁴ bɤ⁴¹/

Noun

水母

jellyfish (Classifier: 隻／只; 條／条)

Synonyms

海蜇 (hǎizhé)
(Min Nan) 海䖳, 石鏡／石镜

Japanese

Etymology 1

Kanji in this term
水	母
Grade: 1	Grade: 2
Irregular

Jukujikun (熟字訓).

Alternative forms

海月

Pronunciation

(Irregular reading)
- (Tokyo) くらげ [kùrágé] (Heiban – [0])[1]
- IPA^(key): [kɯ̟ᵝɾa̠ɡe̞]

Noun

水母 (hiragana くらげ, katakana クラゲ, rōmaji kurage)

a jellyfish
(zoology) medusa

Usage notes

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

Derived terms

水母 (くらげ)の骨 (ほね) (kuragenohone, literally “jellyfish bones”): something exceedingly rare; something that one would not expect to exist

References

1998, NHK日本語発音アクセント辞典 (NHK Japanese Pronunciation Accent Dictionary) (in Japanese), Tōkyō: NHK, →ISBN

Etymology 2

Kanji in this term
水	母
すい Grade: 1	ぼ Grade: 2
on’yomi

Pronunciation

On’yomi
- (Tokyo) すいぼ [sùíbó] (Heiban – [0])[1]
- IPA^(key): [sɨᵝibo̞]

Noun

水母 (hiragana すいぼ, rōmaji suibo)

a jellyfish

1998, NHK日本語発音アクセント辞典 (NHK Japanese Pronunciation Accent Dictionary) (in Japanese), Tōkyō: NHK, →ISBN

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