目高
Japanese
[edit]| Kanji in this term | |
|---|---|
| 目 | 高 |
| め Grade: 1 |
たか > だか Grade: 2 |
| kun'yomi | |
Etymology
[edit]Compound of 目 (me, “eye”) + 高 (taka, “high”), in reference to its appearance.[1] The ta changes to da as an instance of rendaku (連濁).
Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
[edit]- medaka, Japanese ricefish, Japanese killifish, Oryzias latipes, a small freshwater fish
- Synonym: 浮巣 (ukisu)
Usage notes
[edit]As with many terms that name organisms, this term is often spelled in katakana, especially in biological contexts (where katakana is customary).
References
[edit]Categories:
- Japanese terms spelled with 目 read as め
- Japanese terms spelled with 高 read as たか
- Japanese terms read with kun'yomi
- Japanese compound terms
- Japanese terms with rendaku
- Japanese terms with IPA pronunciation
- Japanese terms with Heiban pitch accent (Tōkyō)
- Japanese terms with IPA pronunciation with pitch accent
- Japanese lemmas
- Japanese nouns
- Japanese terms spelled with first grade kanji
- Japanese terms spelled with second grade kanji
- Japanese terms with 2 kanji
- ja:Beloniform fish