雲丹
Japanese
| Kanji in this term | |
|---|---|
| 雲 | 丹 |
| Grade: 2 | Grade: S |
| Irregular | |
Alternative forms
- ウニ (more often used except Japanese restaurant. in science, must.)
- 海胆 (also often used.)
Pronunciation
- (Irregular reading)
- (Tokyo) うに [úꜜnì] (Atamadaka – [1])[1]
- IPA(key): [ɯ̟ᵝɲ̟i]
Noun
雲丹 (hiragana うに, katakana ウニ, rōmaji uni)
- the food made from the roe of sea urchin, hurcheon
Usage notes
When written in kanji, this form is used to indicate the food made from the roe of the sea animal, and the other kanji forms refer to the animal itself, rather like the distinction between the words cow and beef in English. As with many terms that name organisms, this term is often spelled in katakana, especially in biological contexts, as ウニ.
References
- 1998, NHK日本語発音アクセント辞典 (NHK Japanese Pronunciation Accent Dictionary) (in Japanese), Tōkyō: NHK, →ISBN