wooden fish

wooden fish

English

a wooden fish

Etymology

Calque of Chinese 木魚／木鱼 (mùyú).

Noun

wooden fish (plural wooden fish)

1. A wooden percussion instrument played by monks and lay people in the Mahayana Buddhist tradition in China, Japan, Korea and other East Asian countries.

Translations

percussion instrument

Chinese: Mandarin: 木魚 (zh), 木鱼 (zh) (mùyú) Finnish: puukala (fi) Indonesian: ikan kayu

Japanese: 木魚 (mokugyo) Korean: 목어 (ko) (mogeo) Portuguese: please add this translation if you can Vietnamese: mõ (vi), mộc ngư