whale > crocs and sharks

Olli Salmi olli.salmi at uusikaupunki.fi
Fri Nov 24 15:12:55 UTC 2000


At 04:52 +0200 23.11.2000, Joel Bradshaw wrote:
>11a15.1 SHOO, fuka 'shark' [no compounds]
>[not found in my Chinese dictionaries]

Xiang3 'dried fish' in Chinese, usually written like quan2 'fist' with a
fish at the bottom instead of a hand. The meaning 'shark' is purely
Japanese.

Olli Salmi



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