翻車魚

Chinese

		to flip over; to overturn; to derail to flip over; to overturn; to derail; to go south; to take a turn for the worse	fish
trad. (翻車魚)		翻車	魚
simp. (翻车鱼)		翻车	鱼

Pronunciation

Mandarin
(Pinyin): fānchēyú

(Zhuyin): ㄈㄢㄔㄜㄩˊ
Cantonese (Jyutping): faan¹ ce¹ jyu²

Mandarin
- (Standard Chinese)⁺
  - Hanyu Pinyin: fānchēyú
  - Zhuyin: ㄈㄢㄔㄜㄩˊ
  - Tongyong Pinyin: fancheyú
  - Wade–Giles: fan¹-chʻê¹-yü²
  - Yale: fān-chē-yú
  - Gwoyeu Romatzyh: fancheyu
  - Palladius: фаньчэюй (fanʹčɛjuj)
  - Sinological IPA ^(key): /fän⁵⁵ ʈ͡ʂʰɤ⁵⁵ y³⁵/
Cantonese
- (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)⁺
  - Jyutping: faan¹ ce¹ jyu²
  - Yale: fāan chē yú
  - Cantonese Pinyin: faan¹ tse¹ jy²
  - Guangdong Romanization: fan¹ cé¹ yu²
  - Sinological IPA ^(key): /faːn⁵⁵ t͡sʰɛː⁵⁵ jyː³⁵/

Noun

翻車魚

ocean sunfish (Mola mola)

Japanese

Kanji in this term
翻	車	魚
まんぼう
Grade: S	Grade: 1	Grade: 2
jukujikun

Alternative spelling
飜車魚 (kyūjitai)

Etymology

Unknown.^[1] The kanji are jukujikun (熟(じゅく)字(じ)訓(くん)), from Middle Chinese 翻車魚.

Pronunciation

(Tokyo) まんぼー [máꜜǹbòò] (Atamadaka – [1])^[2]
IPA^(key): [mã̠mbo̞ː]

Noun

翻車魚(まんぼう) or 翻車魚(マンボウ) • (manbō) ^{←まんばう (manbau)^?}

ocean sunfish, Mola mola

Usage notes

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

References

^ “翻車魚”, in 精選版日本国語大辞典 [Selected edition: Nihon Kokugo Daijiten]‎^[1] (in Japanese), Shogakukan, 2005
^ Matsumura, Akira, editor (2006), 大辞林 [Daijirin] (in Japanese), Third edition, Tokyo: Sanseidō, →ISBN

“〈翻車魚〉”, in 漢字ぺディア [Kanjipedia]‎^[2] (in Japanese), The Japan Kanji Aptitude Testing Foundation, 2015–2025