珊瑚
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Japanese [edit]
| Kanji in this term | |
| 珊 | 瑚 |
Etymology [edit]
From Sinitic 珊瑚.
Pronunciation [edit]
Noun [edit]
珊瑚 (hiragana さんご, katakana サンゴ, romaji sango)
Usage notes [edit]
As with many biology terms, this term is often 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.
Derived terms [edit]
- 珊瑚アナナス (さんごアナナス, sango ananasu): the coralberry plant, Aechmea fulgens
- 珊瑚海 (さんごかい, Sango Kai): the Coral Sea
- 珊瑚蟹 (さんごがに, sangogani): the coral crab, family Xanthidae
- 珊瑚砂 (さんごしゃ, sangosha): coral sand
- 珊瑚珠 (さんごじゅ, sangoju): coral beads
- 珊瑚樹 (さんごじゅ, sangoju): a coral formation; Viburnum odoratissimum
- 珊瑚樹茄子 (さんごじゅなす, sangoju nasu): alternate for トマト (tomato)
- 珊瑚礁 (さんごしょう, sangoshō): a coral reef
- 珊瑚藻 (さんごも, sangomo): a type of seaweed, coralline algae
- 珊瑚虫 (さんごちゅう, sangochū): a coral polyp
- 珊瑚島 (さんごとう, sangotō): a coral island
- 珊瑚末 (さんごまつ, sangomatsu): coral powder, used as a pigment
- 珊瑚網 (さんごあみ, sango ami): a net used to gather coral
Mandarin [edit]
| simpl. and trad. | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| 珊瑚 | |||
Noun [edit]
珊瑚 (traditional and simplified, Pinyin shānhú)
Min Nan [edit]
| simpl. and trad. | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| 珊瑚 | |||
Noun [edit]
珊瑚 (traditional and simplified, POJ suan-ôo)
Categories:
- Japanese terms written with two Han script characters
- Japanese terms spelled with 珊
- Japanese terms spelled with 瑚
- Japanese terms derived from Sinitic languages
- Japanese nouns
- Mandarin nouns in simplified script
- Mandarin nouns in traditional script
- Mandarin nouns
- Chinese hanzi
- Min Nan nouns in simplified script
- Min Nan nouns in traditional script
- Min Nan nouns
