蠹魚

See also: 蠹鱼

Chinese

		bookworm; Lepisma saccharina	fish
trad. (蠹魚)		蠹	魚
simp. (蠹鱼)		蠹	鱼

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): dùyú

  (Zhuyin): ㄉㄨˋ ㄩˊ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): dou³ jyu^4-2
• Puxian Min (Xianyou, Pouseng Ping'ing): dou⁴ hy²
• Southern Min (Hokkien, POJ): tò͘-hî / tò͘-hû / tò͘-gû

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: dùyú
    • Zhuyin: ㄉㄨˋ ㄩˊ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: dùyú
    • Wade–Giles: tu⁴-yü²
    • Yale: dù-yú
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: duhyu
    • Palladius: дуюй (dujuj)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /tu⁵¹ y³⁵/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)⁺
    • Jyutping: dou³ jyu^4-2
    • Yale: dou yú
    • Cantonese Pinyin: dou³ jy^4-2
    • Guangdong Romanization: dou³ yu^4-2
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /tou̯³³ jyː²¹⁻³⁵/
• Puxian Min
  • (Xianyou)
    • Pouseng Ping'ing: dou⁴ hy² [Phonetic: dou¹ y²]
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /tɔu⁴²⁻⁵⁵ ^(h-)y¹³/
• Southern Min
  • (Hokkien: General Taiwanese)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: tò͘-hî
    • Tâi-lô: tòo-hî
    • Phofsit Daibuun: dorhii
    • IPA (Kaohsiung): /tɔ²¹⁻⁴¹ hi²³/
  • (Hokkien: General Taiwanese)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: tò͘-hû
    • Tâi-lô: tòo-hû
    • Phofsit Daibuun: dorhuu
    • IPA (Taipei): /tɔ¹¹⁻⁵³ hu²⁴/
  • (Hokkien: variant in Taiwan)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: tò͘-gû
    • Tâi-lô: tòo-gû
    • Phofsit Daibuun: dorguu
    • IPA (Kaohsiung): /tɔ²¹⁻⁴¹ ɡu²³/
    • IPA (Taipei): /tɔ¹¹⁻⁵³ ɡu²⁴/

Noun

蠹魚

1. silverfish

Synonyms

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• 壁魚／壁鱼 (bìyú)
• 布魚／布鱼 (Putian Puxian Min)
• 書蛀蟲／书蛀虫 (shūzhùchóng)
• 書蟲／书虫 (shūchóng)
• 白魚／白鱼 (báiyú)
• 紙魚／纸鱼 (zhǐyú)
• 蛀 (zhù) (literary, or in compounds)
• 蛀書蟲／蛀书虫
• 蠹 (dù) (literary, or in compounds)
• 衣蟲／衣虫 (yīchóng)
• 衣魚／衣鱼 (yīyú)

 

References

• 莆田市政协文化文史和学习委员会 [Culture, History and Learning Committee of Putian CPPCC], editor (2021), “蠹鱼”, in 莆仙方言大词典 [Comprehensive Dictionary of Puxian Dialect] (overall work in Mandarin and Puxian Min), Xiamen University Press, →ISBN, page 165.