鮟鱇

鮟鱇

Chinese

trad. (鮟鱇)		鮟	鱇
simp. (𩽾𩾌)		𩽾	𩾌

Etymology

Orthographic borrowing from Japanese 鮟 (あん)鱇 (こう) (ankō).

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): ānkāng, ànkāng

  (Zhuyin): ㄢ ㄎㄤ, ㄢˋ ㄎㄤ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): on¹ hong¹

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese, Mainland)
    • Pinyin: ānkāng
    • Zhuyin: ㄢ ㄎㄤ
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: ankang
    • IPA ^(key): /ˀa̠n⁵⁵ kʰɑŋ⁵⁵/
    • Homophones:

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      edit edit 安康 鮟鱇／𩽾𩾌

      
      
  • (Standard Chinese, Taiwan)⁺
    • Pinyin: ànkāng
    • Zhuyin: ㄢˋ ㄎㄤ
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: annkang
    • IPA ^(key): /ˀa̠n⁵¹ kʰɑŋ⁵⁵/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou)
    • Jyutping: on¹ hong¹
    • Yale: ōn hōng
    • Cantonese Pinyin: on¹ hong¹
    • Guangdong Romanization: on¹ hong¹
    • IPA ^(key): /ɔːn⁵⁵ hɔːŋ⁵⁵/
    • Homophones:

      edit edit 安康 鮟鱇／𩽾𩾌

Noun

鮟鱇

1. anglerfish; monkfish

Synonyms

• 琵琶魚／琵琶鱼
• 老頭魚／老头鱼

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Japanese

鮟鱇 (ankō): an anglerfish, a goosefish, a monkfish.

Kanji in this term
鮟	鱇
あん Hyōgaiji	こう Hyōgaiji
on’yomi	kan’yōon

Etymology

/anɡoː/ → /ankoː/

Unknown.

Various theories of the origin of あんこう (ankō) exist, such as from あんぐり (anguri) or あぐり (aguri, “agape, with one's mouth wide open”),[1][2] perhaps related to Korean 아귀 (agwi, “anglerfish”). The kanji spelling is an Edo-period coinage, found for example in the 1709 biology text 大和本草 (Yamato Honzō, “Japanese Biology”), formed from earlier ateji (当て字) 安康 (ankō) by adding the 魚 (“fish”) radical to each of the ateji characters. The current 鮟鱇 form has replaced the earlier 安康 form.

Pronunciation

• On’yomi
  • (Tokyo) あ​んこー [áꜜǹkòò] (Atamadaka – [1])[3][4][5]
  • (Tokyo) あんこ​ー [àńkóꜜò] (Nakadaka – [3])[5]
  • IPA^(key): [ã̠ŋko̞ː]

Noun

鮟鱇 (hiragana あんこう, katakana アンコウ, rōmaji ankō, historical hiragana あんかう)

1. an anglerfish, a monkfish, a goosefish

Usage notes

As with many terms that name organisms, this term is often spelled in katakana, especially in biological contexts, as アンコウ.

References

1. フリーランス雑学ライダーズ編『あて字のおもしろ雑学』 p.47 1988年 永岡書店
2. アンコウ: 語源, Japanese Wikipedia
3. 1998, NHK日本語発音アクセント辞典 (NHK Japanese Pronunciation Accent Dictionary) (in Japanese), Tōkyō: NHK, →ISBN
4. 2006, 大辞林 (Daijirin), Third Edition (in Japanese), Tōkyō: Sanseidō, →ISBN
5. 1997, 新明解国語辞典 (Shin Meikai Kokugo Jiten), Fifth Edition (in Japanese), Tōkyō: Sanseidō, →ISBN

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Korean

Hanja in this term
鮟	鱇

Noun

鮟鱇 • (an-gang, McCune-Reischauer: an'gang, Yale: ankang) (hangeul 안강)

1. Hanja form^? of 안강 (“anglerfish; monkfish”).

Synonyms

• 아귀 (agwi)