サンゴ礁

Japanese

Kanji in this term
礁
しょう Grade: S
on'yomi

Pronunciation

• (Tokyo) さんごしょー [sàńgóꜜ shòò] (Nakadaka – [3])
• IPA^(key): [sã̠ŋɡo̞ ɕo̞ː]

Noun

サンゴ礁(しょう) • (sango shō) ^{←さんごせう (sangoseu)?}

1. 珊瑚礁: a coral reef

Usage notes

As with many biology terms, the sango part is more commonly written in katakana, as サンゴ. However, due to the large number of homophones in Japanese, dictionaries will often list such terms under the kanji spelling for disambiguation purposes.