cá mực

Vietnamese

Etymology

cá (“fish”) +‎ mực (“ink”), semantically paralleling English inkfish (“cuttlefish, squid, or octopus”) and Chinese 墨魚 (“cuttlefish”, literally “inkfish”).

Pronunciation

• (Hà Nội) IPA^(key): [kaː˧˦ mɨk̚˧˨ʔ]
• (Huế) IPA^(key): [kaː˨˩˦ mɨk̚˨˩ʔ]
• (Saigon) IPA^(key): [kaː˦˥ mɨk̚˨˩˨]

Noun

(classifier con) cá mực

1. inkfish (a cephalopod of the Coleoidea subclass, which comprises octopuses, squids, and cuttlefish)