人魚

See also: 人鱼

Chinese

Lua error in Module:utilities at line 142: attempt to perform arithmetic on local 'h' (a nil value)

Pronunciation

Noun

人魚

  1. mermaid; merperson; merfolk
  2. dugong
  3. (literary) giant salamander

Synonyms
  • (giant salamander):

Lua error in Module:utilities at line 142: attempt to perform arithmetic on local 'h' (a nil value)

Derived terms

Descendants
Sino-Xenic (人魚):
  • → Japanese: Lua error in Module:utilities at line 142: attempt to perform arithmetic on local 'h' (a nil value)
  • → Korean: 인어(人魚) (ineo)
  • → Vietnamese: nhân ngư (Lua error in Module:utilities at line 142: attempt to perform arithmetic on local 'h' (a nil value))

Japanese
Kanji in this term
人 魚
にん
Grade: 1		 ぎょ
Grade: 2
goon kan’on

Etymology

人 (nin, “human”) +‎ 魚 (gyo, “fish”)

Pronunciation
  • (Tokyo) に​んぎょ [níꜜǹgyò] (Atamadaka – [1])[1]
  • IPA(key): [ɲ̟ĩŋʲɡʲo̞]

Noun

人(にん)魚(ぎょ) • (ningyo) 

  1. a merperson
    人(にん)魚(ぎょ)姫(ひめ)
    Ningyo-hime
    The Little Mermaid
    伝(でん)説(せつ)では、彼(かの)女(じょ)は人(にん)魚(ぎょ)だったと言(い)われる。
    Densetsu de wa, kanojo wa ningyo datta to iwareru.
    The legend says that she was a mermaid.
    • 1999 March 27, “恍(こう)惚(こつ)の人魚(マーメイド)”, in Vol.2, Konami:
      海(うみ)を航(こう)海(かい)する者(もの)を誘(ゆう)惑(わく)しておぼれさせる、美(うつく)しい人(にん)魚(ぎょ)。
      Umi o kōkai suru mono o yūwaku shite oboresaseru, utsukushii ningyo.
      A beautiful mermaid who lures seafarers before drowning them.

Derived terms
  • 人魚構文(にんぎょこうぶん) (ningyo kōbun)

References
  1. 1998, NHK日本語発音アクセント辞典 (NHK Japanese Pronunciation Accent Dictionary) (in Japanese), Tōkyō: NHK, →ISBN
  • 2002, Ineko Kondō; Fumi Takano; Mary E Althaus; et. al., Shogakukan Progressive Japanese-English Dictionary, Third Edition, Tokyo: Shōgakukan, →ISBN.

Korean
Hanja in this term
人魚

Noun

人魚 • (ineo) (hangeul 인어)

  1. Hanja form? of 인어 (“merperson”).

Vietnamese
chữ Hán Nôm in this term
人魚

Noun

人魚

  1. chữ Hán form of nhân ngư (“merperson”).
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