人魚

See also: 人鱼

Chinese
man; person; people fish
trad. (人魚) 人 魚
simp. (人鱼) 人 鱼

Pronunciation

Noun

人魚

  1. mermaid; merperson; merfolk
  2. dugong
  3. (literary) giant salamander

Synonyms
  • (giant salamander):
Dialectal synonyms of 娃娃魚 (“giant salamander”) [map]
Variety Location Words
Classical Chinese 鯢, 鯢魚, 人魚
Formal (Written Standard Chinese) 大鯢
Taxonomic name 大鯢
Mandarin Taiwan 娃娃魚
Luoyang 娃娃魚
Yinchuan 娃娃魚
Guiyang 娃娃魚
Liuzhou 娃娃魚
Cantonese Hong Kong 娃娃魚
Huizhou Jixi 娃娃魚, 海狗魚
Jin Xinzhou 娃娃魚兒

Derived terms

Descendants
Sino-Xenic (人魚):

Japanese
Kanji in this term
人 魚
にん
Grade: 1		 ぎょ
Grade: 2
goon kan’on

Etymology

人 (nin, “human”) +‎ 魚 (gyo, “fish”)

Pronunciation
  • (Tokyo) に​んぎょ [níꜜǹgyò] (Atamadaka – [1])[1]
  • IPA(key): [ɲ̟ĩŋʲɡʲo̞]

Noun

人(にん)魚(ぎょ) • (ningyo) 

  1. a merperson
    人(にん)魚(ぎょ)姫(ひめ)
    Ningyo-hime
    The Little Mermaid
    伝(でん)説(せつ)では、彼(かの)女(じょ)は人(にん)魚(ぎょ)だったと言(い)われる。
    Densetsu de wa, kanojo wa ningyo datta to iwareru.
    The legend says that she was a mermaid.
    • 1999 March 27, “恍(こう)惚(こつ)の人魚(マーメイド) [Enchanting Mermaid]”, in Vol.2, Konami:
      海(うみ)を航(こう)海(かい)する者(もの)を誘(ゆう)惑(わく)しておぼれさせる、美(うつく)しい人(にん)魚(ぎょ)。
      Umi o kōkai suru mono o yūwaku shite oboresaseru, utsukushii ningyo.
      A beautiful mermaid who lures seafarers before drowning them.

Derived terms
  • 人魚構文(にんぎょこうぶん) (ningyo kōbun)

References
  1. 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
  • 2002, Ineko Kondō; Fumi Takano; Mary E Althaus; et. al., Shogakukan Progressive Japanese-English Dictionary, Third Edition, Tokyo: Shōgakukan, →ISBN.

Korean
Hanja in this term
人魚

Noun

人魚 • (ineo) (hangeul 인어)

  1. Hanja form? of 인어 (“merperson”).

Vietnamese
chữ Hán Nôm in this term
人魚

Noun

人魚

  1. chữ Hán form of nhân ngư (“merperson”).
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