サンゴ礁
Japanese
Kanji in this term |
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礁 |
しょう Grade: S |
on’yomi |
Noun
サンゴ礁 (hiragana さんごしょう, rōmaji sango shō, historical hiragana さんごせう)
- 珊瑚礁: a coral reef
Usage notes
As with many biology terms, the sango part is more commonly written in katakana, as サンゴ. However, due to the large number of homophones in Japanese, dictionaries will often list such terms under the kanji spelling for disambiguation purposes.