魚鰓

Chinese

		fish	gills of fish
trad. (魚鰓)		魚	鰓
simp. (鱼鳃)		鱼	鳃

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): yúsāi

  (Zhuyin): ㄩˊ ㄙㄞ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): jyu⁴ soi¹
• Gan (Wiktionary): nyie⁴ sai¹
• Jin (Wiktionary): y¹ sai¹
• Northern Min (KCR): ngṳ̂-só
• Puxian Min (Pouseng Ping'ing): hy² ci¹
• Southern Min (Hokkien, POJ): hîr-chhi / hû-chhi / hî-chhi

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: yúsāi
    • Zhuyin: ㄩˊ ㄙㄞ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: yúsai
    • Wade–Giles: yü²-sai¹
    • Yale: yú-sāi
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: yusai
    • Palladius: юйсай (jujsaj)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /y³⁵ saɪ̯⁵⁵/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)⁺
    • Jyutping: jyu⁴ soi¹
    • Yale: yùh sōi
    • Cantonese Pinyin: jy⁴ soi¹
    • Guangdong Romanization: yu⁴ soi¹
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /jyː²¹ sɔːi̯⁵⁵/
• Gan
  • (Nanchang)
    • Wiktionary: nyie⁴ sai¹
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /n̠ʲie³⁵ sai⁴²/
• Jin
  • (Taiyuan)⁺
    • Wiktionary: y¹ sai¹
    • Sinological IPA (old-style): /y¹¹ sai¹¹/
• Northern Min
  • (Jian'ou)
    • Kienning Colloquial Romanized: ngṳ̂-só
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /ŋy³³ so⁵⁴/
• Puxian Min
  • (Putian, Xianyou)
    • Pouseng Ping'ing: hy² ci¹ [Phonetic: hy⁵ ci¹]
    • Báⁿ-uā-ci̍: hṳ́-chi
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /hy¹³⁻²¹ t͡sʰi⁵³³/
• Southern Min
  • (Hokkien: Quanzhou)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: hîr-chhi
    • Tâi-lô: hîr-tshi
    • IPA (Quanzhou): /hɯ²⁴⁻²² t͡sʰi³³/
  • (Hokkien: Taipei)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: hû-chhi
    • Tâi-lô: hû-tshi
    • Phofsit Daibuun: huchy
    • IPA (Taipei): /hu²⁴⁻¹¹ t͡sʰi⁴⁴/
  • (Hokkien: Kaohsiung, Xiamen, Zhangzhou)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: hî-chhi
    • Tâi-lô: hî-tshi
    • Phofsit Daibuun: hichy
    • IPA (Xiamen): /hi²⁴⁻²² t͡sʰi⁴⁴/
    • IPA (Kaohsiung): /hi²³⁻³³ t͡sʰi⁴⁴/
    • IPA (Zhangzhou): /hi¹³⁻²² t͡sʰi⁴⁴/

Noun

魚鰓

1. fish gill

Synonyms

Dialectal synonyms of 鰓 (“gill (of a fish)”) [map]

Variety	Location	Words edit
Formal (Written Standard Chinese)		鰓
Northeastern Mandarin	Taiwan	鰓
	Harbin	魚嘎撒, 嘎撒, 魚嘎水, 魚棵鰓
Jilu Mandarin	Jinan	鰓, 魚鰓, 結鰓
Central Plains Mandarin	Luoyang	魚鰓
	Xi'an	魚鰓
	Xining	魚耳鰓
	Xuzhou	魚鰓
Lanyin Mandarin	Yinchuan	魚鰓
	Ürümqi	魚鰓
Southwestern Mandarin	Chengdu	鰓, 鰓巴, 魚鰓
	Wuhan	魚鰓
	Liuzhou	魚鰓
Jianghuai Mandarin	Nanjing	魚鰓
	Yangzhou	鰓, 魚鰓
Cantonese	Hong Kong	鰓, 魚鰓
	Dongguan	魚鰓
Gan	Nanchang	鰓, 魚鰓
	Lichuan	魚鰓
Hakka	Meixian	魚頦鰓
	Yudu	魚鰓
	Miaoli (N. Sixian)	頦鰓
	Pingtung (Neipu; S. Sixian)	頦鰓
	Hsinchu County (Zhudong; Hailu)	頦鰓
	Taichung (Dongshi; Dabu)	頦鰓
	Hsinchu County (Qionglin; Raoping)	頦鰓
	Miaoli (Zhuolan; Raoping)	頦鰓
	Yunlin (Lunbei; Zhao'an)	魚鰓
Huizhou	Jixi	魚葉鰓
Jin	Taiyuan	魚鰓
	Xinzhou	魚兒鬍鰓
Northern Min	Jian'ou	鰓, 魚鰓
Eastern Min	Fuzhou	鰓, 魚鰓
Southern Min	Xiamen	魚鰓
	Quanzhou	魚鰓
	Zhangzhou	魚鰓
	Tainan	魚鰓
	Haikou	魚鰓
Puxian Min	Putian	鰓, 魚鰓
	Xianyou	鰓, 魚鰓
Southern Pinghua	Nanning (Tingzi)	魚鰓
Wu	Shanghai	鰓, 魚蛤鰓
	Shanghai (Chongming)	魚夾鰓
	Suzhou	頜鰓
	Danyang	鰓
	Hangzhou	魚鰓兒
	Ningbo	魚鰓
	Wenzhou	鰓, 魚鰓
	Jinhua	鰓
Xiang	Loudi	魚鰓

References

• 小川尚義 (OGAWA Naoyoshi), editor (1931–1932), “魚腮”, in 臺日大辭典 [Taiwanese-Japanese Dictionary]‎^[1] (overall work in Hokkien and Japanese), Taihoku: Government-General of Taiwan, →OCLC
• “魚鰓”, in 教育部臺灣台語常用詞辭典 [Dictionary of Frequently-Used Taiwanese Taigi] (overall work in Mandarin and Hokkien), Ministry of Education, R.O.C., 2025.
• “Entry #23712”, in 臺灣客語辭典 [Dictionary of Taiwan Hakka] (overall work in Chinese and Hakka), Ministry of Education, R.O.C., 2022.
• 莆田市政协文化文史和学习委员会 [Culture, History and Learning Committee of Putian CPPCC], editor (2021), “鱼鳃”, in 莆仙方言大词典 [Comprehensive Dictionary of Puxian Dialect] (overall work in Mandarin and Puxian Min), Xiamen University Press, →ISBN, page 283.