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

Rime
Character 水 母
Reading # 1/1 1/1
Initial (聲) 書 (26) 明 (4)
Final (韻) 脂 (18) 侯 (137)
Tone (調) Rising (X) Rising (X)
Openness (開合) Closed Open
Division (等) III I
Fanqie 式軌切 莫厚切
Baxter sywijX muwX
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang
Shangfang		 /ɕˠiuɪX/ /məuX/
Pan
Wuyun		 /ɕʷᵚiX/ /məuX/
Shao
Rongfen		 /ɕiuɪX/ /məuX/
Edwin
Pulleyblank		 /ɕjwiX/ /məwX/
Li
Rong		 /ɕjuiX/ /muX/
Wang
Li		 /ɕwiX/ /məuX/
Bernard
Karlgren		 /ɕwiX/ /mə̯uX/
Expected
Mandarin
Reflex		 shuǐ mǒu
Expected
Cantonese
Reflex		 seoi2 mau5

Noun

水母

  1. jellyfish (Classifier: 隻／只; 條／条)

Synonyms

Derived terms
  • 僧帽水母 (sēngmào shuǐmǔ)
  • 水母目蝦／水母目虾
  • 海月水母
  • 海蛇水母

Descendants
Sino-Xenic (水母):
  • → Japanese: 水(すい)母(ぼ) (suibo)

Japanese

Etymology 1
Kanji in this term
水 母
くらげ
Grade: 1 Grade: 2
jukujikun
Alternative spelling
海月

⟨kurage1⟩ → */kuraᵑɡʲe/ → /kuraɡe/

From Old Japanese. The kanji is an example of jukujikun (熟字訓).

Pronunciation

Noun

水母(くらげ) or 水母(クラゲ) • (kurage) 

  1. (zoology) a jellyfish, medusa
Usage notes
Derived terms
Derived terms
  • 行(アン)灯(ドン)水母(クラゲ) (andon kurage)
  • 瓜(ウリ)水母(クラゲ) (urikurage)
  • 帯(オビ)水母(クラゲ) (obikurage)
  • 銀(ギン)貨(カ)水母(クラゲ) (ginka kurage)
  • 櫛(クシ)水母(クラゲ) (kushikurage)
  • 象(ゾウ)水母(クラゲ) (zōkurage)
  • 電(デン)気(キ)水母(クラゲ) (denki kurage)
  • 鉢(ハチ)水母(クラゲ) (hachikurage)
  • 花(ハナ)笠(ガサ)水母(クラゲ) (hanagasa kurage)
  • 備(ビ)前(ゼン)水母(クラゲ) (Bizen kurage)
  • 水(ミズ)水母(クラゲ) (mizukurage)
Idioms
  • 水母(くらげ)の骨(ほね) (kurage no hone, “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
kan’on

From Middle Chinese 水母 (MC sywijX muwX).

Pronunciation

Noun

水(すい)母(ぼ) • (suibo) 

  1. a jellyfish

References
  1. Matsumura, Akira, editor (2006), 大辞林 [Daijirin] (in Japanese), Third edition, Tōkyō: Sanseidō, →ISBN
  2. NHK Broadcasting Culture Research Institute, editor (1998), NHK日本語発音アクセント辞典 [NHK Japanese Pronunciation Accent Dictionary] (in Japanese), Tōkyō: NHK Publishing, →ISBN

Korean
Hanja in this term
水母

Noun

水母 • (sumo) (hangeul 수모)

  1. Hanja form? of 수모 (“jellyfish”).
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