三味線貝

Japanese
Kanji in this term
三 味 線 貝
しゃ
Grade: 1
(ateji)		 み
Grade: 3
(ateji)		 せん
Grade: 2		 かい > がい
Grade: 1
irregular goon on’yomi kun’yomi

Etymology

Compound of 三味線 (shamisen, a Japanese plucked string instrument) +‎ 貝 (kai, “shellfish”).

The kai changes to gai as an instance of rendaku (連濁)..

Pronunciation
  • (Tokyo) しゃみせ​んがい [shàmíséꜜǹgàì] (Nakadaka – [3])[1]
  • IPA(key): [ɕa̠mʲisẽ̞ŋɡa̠i]

Noun

三(しゃ)味(み)線(せん)貝(がい) • (shamisengai) ←しやみせんがひ (syamisengafi)?

  1. a lamp shell, lingulate brachiopod of the family Lingulidae
    Synonym: 女冠者 (mekaja, dialectal)
    Hypernym: 腕足類 (wansokurui)

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 シャミセンガイ.

Coordinate terms

References
  1. 2006, 大辞林 (Daijirin), Third Edition (in Japanese), Tōkyō: Sanseidō, →ISBN
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