衣魚

衣魚

See also: 衣鱼

Chinese

		gown; clothes; to dress gown; clothes; to dress; to wear	fish
trad. (衣魚)		衣	魚
simp. (衣鱼)		衣	鱼

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): yīyú

  (Zhuyin): ㄧ ㄩˊ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): ji¹ jyu^4-2

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Pinyin: yīyú
    • Zhuyin: ㄧ ㄩˊ
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: iyu
    • IPA ^(key): /i⁵⁵ y³⁵/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou)⁺
    • Jyutping: ji¹ jyu^4-2
    • Yale: yī yú
    • Cantonese Pinyin: ji¹ jy^4-2
    • Guangdong Romanization: yi¹ yu²
    • IPA ^(key): /jiː⁵⁵ jyː²¹⁻³⁵/

Noun

衣魚

1. silverfish

Synonyms

• 壁魚／壁鱼 (bìyú)
• 蠹魚／蠹鱼 (dùyú)
• 書蛀蟲／书蛀虫 (shūzhùchóng)
• 紙魚／纸鱼 (zhǐyú)

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Japanese

Kanji in this term
衣	魚
Grade: 4	み Grade: 2
jukujikun

Etymology

From Old Japanese (see 蟫). The kanji are jukujikun (熟字訓), from Orthographic borrowing from Chinese 衣魚.

Noun

衣魚 (hiragana しみ, katakana シミ, rōmaji shimi)

1. Any insect of the family Lepismatidae, a silverfish or bristletail.

   Synonyms: 紙魚, 蠧魚