椰子蟹

Chinese

		coconut	crab
simp. and trad. (椰子蟹)		椰子	蟹

Pronunciation

Mandarin
(Pinyin): yēzixiè, yézixiè

(Zhuyin): ㄧㄝ ˙ㄗㄒㄧㄝˋ, ㄧㄝˊ ˙ㄗㄒㄧㄝˋ

Mandarin
- (Standard Chinese, Mainland)⁺
  - Pinyin: yēzixiè
  - Zhuyin: ㄧㄝ ˙ㄗㄒㄧㄝˋ
  - Gwoyeu Romatzyh: ie.tzyshieh
  - IPA ^(key): /i̯ɛ⁵⁵ d͡z̥z̩² ɕi̯ɛ⁵¹/
- (Standard Chinese, Taiwan)⁺
  - Pinyin: yézixiè
  - Zhuyin: ㄧㄝˊ ˙ㄗㄒㄧㄝˋ
  - Gwoyeu Romatzyh: ye.tzyshieh
  - IPA ^(key): /i̯ɛ³⁵ d͡z̥z̩³ ɕi̯ɛ⁵¹/

Noun

椰子蟹

coconut crab

Japanese

Kanji in this term
椰	子	蟹
や Jinmeiyō	し Grade: 1	かに > がに Jinmeiyō

Etymology

Compound of 椰子 (yashi, “palm”) +‎ 蟹 (kani, “crab”). The kani changes to gani as an instance of rendaku (連濁).

Pronunciation

(Tokyo) やしがに [yàshíꜜgànì] (Nakadaka – [2])^[1]^[2]
IPA^(key): [ja̠ɕiɡa̠ɲ̟i]

Noun

椰子蟹 (hiragana やしがに, katakana ヤシガニ, rōmaji yashigani)

coconut crab

Synonyms

まっかん蟹 (がに) (makkangani)

References

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