竜の落とし子

Japanese

Alternative spellings
龍の落とし子 (kyūjitai) 竜の落し子竜の落子竜落子

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タツノオトシゴ

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Compound of 竜 (tatsu, “dragon”) +‎ の (no, “'s”) +‎ 落とし子 (otoshigo, “illegitimate child”),^[1]^[2]^[3]^[4]^[5] from their resemblance to dragons.

First cited to a work from 1847.^[2]

竜(たつ)の落(お)とし子(ご) or 竜(タツ)の落(オ)とし子(ゴ) • (tatsu no otoshigo)

As with many terms that name organisms, this term is often spelled in katakana, especially in biological contexts (where katakana is customary), as タツノオトシゴ.

^ Shinmura, Izuru, editor (1998), 広辞苑 [Kōjien] (in Japanese), Fifth edition, Tokyo: Iwanami Shoten, →ISBN
↑ ^2.0 ^2.1 “龍落子”, in 日本国語大辞典 [Nihon Kokugo Daijiten]‎^[1] (in Japanese), concise edition, Tokyo: Shogakukan, 2006
^ “竜の落し子”, in デジタル大辞泉 [Digital Daijisen]‎^[2] (in Japanese), Tōkyō: Shogakukan, updated roughly every four months
↑ ^4.0 ^4.1 ^4.2 Matsumura, Akira, editor (2006), 大辞林 [Daijirin] (in Japanese), Third edition, Tokyo: Sanseidō, →ISBN
↑ ^5.0 ^5.1 ^5.2 Kindaichi, Kyōsuke et al., editors (1997), 新明解国語辞典 [Shin Meikai Kokugo Jiten] (in Japanese), Fifth 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