馬鹿貝

Japanese

Kanji in this term
馬	鹿	貝
ば Grade: 2	か Grade: 4	かい > がい Grade: 1
kan'on	kun'yomi

Alternative spellings
馬珂貝バカ貝

Pronunciation

(Tokyo) ばかがい [bàkáꜜgàì] (Nakadaka – [2])^[1]^[2]
IPA^(key): [ba̠ka̠ɡa̠i]

Noun

馬(ば)鹿(か)貝(がい) or 馬鹿貝(バカガイ) • (bakagai) ^{←ばかがひ (bakagafi)^?}

Mactra chinensis, a species of trough shell

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 バカガイ (bakagai).

References

^ Matsumura, Akira, editor (2006), 大辞林 [Daijirin] (in Japanese), Third edition, Tokyo: Sanseidō, →ISBN
^ 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), Tokyo: NHK Publishing, Inc., →ISBN

微小貝データベース: [1]

[DJR-1] Matsumura, Akira, editor (2006), 大辞林 [Daijirin] (in Japanese), Third edition, Tokyo: Sanseidō, →ISBN

[NHK-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), Tokyo: NHK Publishing, Inc., →ISBN

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