水母

Chinese

		water; river	female; mother
simp. and trad. (水母)		水	母

Etymology

(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium. Particularly: “Why "mother"?”)

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): shuǐmǔ

  (Zhuyin): ㄕㄨㄟˇ ㄇㄨˇ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): seoi² mou⁵
• Southern Min (Hokkien, POJ): chúi-bú / chúi-bó

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: shuǐmǔ [Phonetic: shuímǔ]
    • Zhuyin: ㄕㄨㄟˇ ㄇㄨˇ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: shuěimǔ
    • Wade–Giles: shui³-mu³
    • Yale: shwěi-mǔ
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: shoeimuu
    • Palladius: шуйму (šujmu)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /ʂu̯eɪ̯²¹⁴⁻³⁵ mu²¹⁴⁻²¹⁽⁴⁾/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)⁺
    • Jyutping: seoi² mou⁵
    • Yale: séui móuh
    • Cantonese Pinyin: soey² mou⁵
    • Guangdong Romanization: sêu² mou⁵
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /sɵy̯³⁵ mou̯¹³/
• Southern Min
  • (Hokkien: Xiamen, Quanzhou, variant in Taiwan)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: chúi-bú
    • Tâi-lô: tsuí-bú
    • Phofsit Daibuun: zuy'buo
    • IPA (Kaohsiung): /t͡sui⁴¹⁻⁴⁴ bu⁴¹/
    • IPA (Quanzhou): /t͡sui⁵⁵⁴⁻²⁴ bu⁵⁵⁴/
    • IPA (Xiamen, Taipei): /t͡sui⁵³⁻⁴⁴ bu⁵³/
  • (Hokkien: Zhangzhou, General Taiwanese)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: chúi-bó
    • Tâi-lô: tsuí-bó
    • Phofsit Daibuun: zuy'boir
    • IPA (Zhangzhou, Taipei): /t͡sui⁵³⁻⁴⁴ bo⁵³/
    • IPA (Kaohsiung): /t͡sui⁴¹⁻⁴⁴ bɤ⁴¹/

Noun

(deprecated template usage) 水母

1. jellyfish (Classifier: 隻／只; 條／条)

Synonyms

• 海蜇 (hǎizhé)
• (Min Nan) 海䖳, 石鏡／石镜

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Japanese

Etymology 1

Kanji in this term
水	母
Grade: 1	Grade: 2
irregular

Jukujikun (熟字訓). (This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium. Particularly: “From Old Japanese?”)

Alternative forms

• 海月

Noun

水母(くらげ) or 水母(クラゲ) • (kurage) 

1. a jellyfish
2. (zoology) medusa

Usage notes

• As with many terms that name organisms, this term is often spelled in katakana, especially in biological contexts (where katakana is customary), as クラゲ.

Derived terms

• 水母(くらげ)の骨(ほね) (kuragenohone, literally “jellyfish bones”): something exceedingly rare; something that one would not expect to exist

Etymology 2

Kanji in this term
水	母
すい Grade: 1	ぼ Grade: 2
on'yomi

Noun

水(すい)母(ぼ) • (suibo) 

1. a jellyfish