石斑魚

石斑魚

1. grouper

石斑魚 (ugui): a Japanese dace.

Possibly originally a compound of 鵜 (u, “cormorant”) +‎ 食い (kui, “eating, gobbling”, the 連用形 (ren'yōkei, “continuative or stem form”) of verb 食う (kuu, “to eat, to gobble”)).

• (Irregular reading)
  • (Tokyo) うぐい [ùgúí] (Heiban – [0])[1]
  • IPA^(key): [ɯ̟ᵝɡɯ̟ᵝi]

• ウグイ, 鯎

石斑魚 (hiragana うぐい, katakana ウグイ, 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

This three-kanji spelling is an example of jukujikun.

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

• 丸 (まる)太 (た) (maruta)

石斑魚 (ishibushi): a freshwater goby.

Compound of 石 (ishi, “rock, stone”) +‎ 伏し (fushi, “crouching down, lying down; hiding”, the 連用形 (ren'yōkei, “the continuative or stem form”) of verb 伏す (fusu, “to crouch down, to lie down; to hide”)),[2] from the way the fish seem to crouch down and hide among the stones of the river bed.[1] The fushi changes to bushi as an instance of rendaku (連濁).

• (Irregular reading)
  • (Tokyo) いしぶし [ìshíbúshí] (Heiban – [0])[1]
  • IPA^(key): [iɕibɯ̟ᵝɕi]

• 石伏, 石伏し

石斑魚 (hiragana いしぶし, rōmaji ishibushi)

1. alternative for 葦 (よし)登 (のぼり) (yoshinobori): a kind of freshwater goby, any fish of genus Rhinogobius

As with many terms that name organisms, this term is often spelled in katakana, especially in biological contexts, as ヨシノボリ.