水母

Chinese

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

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, mainstream 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)

Japanese

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

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

Usage notes

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

The kanji are jukujikun (熟字訓).

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

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