baiji

baiji

See also: bai ji, bàijì, bàijī, and Baiji

English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈbaɪd͡ʒi/

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Etymology 1

From Mandarin 白鱀豚／白𬶨豚 (báijìtún).

Noun

baiji (plural baijis or baiji)

1. A freshwater dolphin (†Lipotes vexillifer), only found in the Yangtze River. Declared functionally extinct in 2006.
   • 2021 March 30, J. B. MacKinnon, “An Entire Group of Whales Has Somehow Escaped Human Attention”, in The Atlantic‎:

     In 2006, he made a research trip to China to look for the baiji, also known as the Yangtze River dolphin. He and his colleagues searched the legendary river’s entire 1,700-kilometer main channel, twice. They counted nearly 20,000 large shipping vessels and more than a thousand fishing boats, but no river dolphins. At the end of their quest, they declared that the species was likely extinct, a conclusion now widely supported. For all the terrible harm that humans have done to cetaceans, drastically reducing their abundance and range, the baiji was the first of them that we ever completely extinguished. It happened in the 21st century.

Synonyms

• Chinese river dolphin, Chinese white dolphin, whitefin dolphin, Yangtze dolphin, Yangtze River dolphin

Translations

freshwater dolphin

Azerbaijani: çin çay delfini Breton: delfin sina m Catalan: dofí del Iang-tsé m, dofí de riu xinès m Chinese: Cantonese: 白鱀豚 (baak6 kei3 tyun4) Mandarin: 白鱀豚／白𬶨豚 (zh) (báijìtún) Min Nan: 白鱀豚 (pe̍h-kî-thûn) Czech: delfínovec čínský m Danish: kinesisk floddelfin c Dutch: chinese vlagdolfijn Esperanto: blanknaĝila delfeno Finnish: kiinanjokidelfiinni French: baiji (fr) m, dauphin de Chine (fr) m, dauphin du Yangzi (fr) m German: Baiji m, Chinesische Flussdelfin m Hungarian: kínai delfin Irish: deilf na hIaing-tsí f Italian: lipote m Japanese: ヨウスコウカワイルカ (yōsukōkawairuka) Kazakh: байцзи (baiszi) Korean: 양쯔강돌고래 (yangjjeugangdolgorae) Lithuanian: kininis ežerinis delfinas Norwegian: Bokmål: kinesisk elvedelfin m Nynorsk: kinesisk elvedelfin m Polish: baji chiński m Portuguese: golfinho-lacustre-chinês m Romanian: delfinul chinezesc m Russian: байцзи́ m (bajczí) Scots: Cheenese river dowphin Slovene: jangceška pliskavka f, kitajski rečni delfin m Spanish: baiji m, delfín chino de río m Swedish: asiatisk floddelfin c Thai: โลมาแม่น้ำจีน (loh-maa mâe náam jeen) Turkish: çin nehir yunusu Ukrainian: дельфін озерний m (delʹfin ozernyj)

Etymology 2

From Mandarin 白芨 (báijī).

Noun

baiji (uncountable)

1. Alternative form of bai ji

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French

Etymology

From Mandarin 白鱀豚／白𬶨豚 (báijìtún).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /bɛ.ʒi/, /be.ʒi/

Noun

baiji m (plural baijis)

1. baiji, Chinese river dolphin (Lipotes vexillifer)

   Synonyms: dauphin de Chine, dauphin du Yangzi