ウグイ

Japanese

ウグイ (ugui): a Japanese dace.

Alternative forms

Etymology

Possibly originally a compound of 鵜 (u, “cormorant”) +‎ 食い (kui, “eating, gobbling”).

Pronunciation

Noun

ウグイ (hiragana うぐい, rōmaji ugui, historical hiragana うぐひ)

  1. the Japanese dace, also known as the big-scaled redfin: Tribolodon hakonensis, an edible fish in family Cyprinidae

Usage notes

Although there are two possible kanji spellings, as with many less-common plant and animal names, this word is more often spelled in katakana.

Synonyms

References

  1. ↑ 2006, 大辞林 (Daijirin), Third Edition (in Japanese), Tōkyō: Sanseidō, →ISBN
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