"wooden fish" meaning in English

See wooden fish in All languages combined, or Wiktionary

Noun

Forms: wooden fishes [plural], wooden fish [plural]
Etymology: Calque of Chinese 木魚/木鱼 (mùyú). Etymology templates: {{calque|en|zh|-}} Calque of Chinese, {{zh-l|木魚}} 木魚/木鱼 (mùyú) Head templates: {{en-noun|es|wooden fish}} wooden fish (plural wooden fishes or wooden fish)
  1. A wooden percussion instrument played by monks and lay people in the Mahayana Buddhist tradition in China, Japan, Korea and other East Asian countries. Wikipedia link: wooden fish Categories (topical): Buddhism, Percussion instruments Translations (percussion instrument): 木魚 (Chinese Mandarin), 木鱼 (mùyú) (Chinese Mandarin), puukala (Finnish), Holzfisch [masculine] (German), ikan kayu (Indonesian), 木魚 (mokugyo) (Japanese), 목어 (mogeo) (Korean), 목탁 (moktak) (Korean), ᡨᠣᡴᠰᡳᡨᡠ (toksitu) (Manchu), ཤིང་ཉ (english: shing nya) (Tibetan), (Vietnamese), mộc ngư (Vietnamese)

Inflected forms

Download JSON data for wooden fish meaning in English (3.5kB)

{
  "etymology_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "en",
        "2": "zh",
        "3": "-"
      },
      "expansion": "Calque of Chinese",
      "name": "calque"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "木魚"
      },
      "expansion": "木魚/木鱼 (mùyú)",
      "name": "zh-l"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_text": "Calque of Chinese 木魚/木鱼 (mùyú).",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "wooden fishes",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "wooden fish",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "es",
        "2": "wooden fish"
      },
      "expansion": "wooden fish (plural wooden fishes or wooden fish)",
      "name": "en-noun"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "English entries with incorrect language header",
          "parents": [
            "Entries with incorrect language header",
            "Entry maintenance"
          ],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "English entries with topic categories using raw markup",
          "parents": [
            "Entries with topic categories using raw markup",
            "Entry maintenance"
          ],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "English terms with non-redundant non-automated sortkeys",
          "parents": [
            "Terms with non-redundant non-automated sortkeys",
            "Entry maintenance"
          ],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Mandarin terms with redundant transliterations",
          "parents": [
            "Terms with redundant transliterations",
            "Entry maintenance"
          ],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "topical",
          "langcode": "en",
          "name": "Buddhism",
          "orig": "en:Buddhism",
          "parents": [
            "Religion",
            "Culture",
            "Society",
            "All topics",
            "Fundamental"
          ],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "topical",
          "langcode": "en",
          "name": "Percussion instruments",
          "orig": "en:Percussion instruments",
          "parents": [
            "Musical instruments",
            "Music",
            "Tools",
            "Art",
            "Sound",
            "Technology",
            "Culture",
            "Energy",
            "All topics",
            "Society",
            "Nature",
            "Fundamental"
          ],
          "source": "w"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "A wooden percussion instrument played by monks and lay people in the Mahayana Buddhist tradition in China, Japan, Korea and other East Asian countries."
      ],
      "id": "en-wooden_fish-en-noun-DVBH09R6",
      "links": [
        [
          "wooden",
          "wooden"
        ],
        [
          "percussion",
          "percussion"
        ],
        [
          "instrument",
          "instrument"
        ],
        [
          "monk",
          "monk"
        ],
        [
          "lay people",
          "lay people"
        ],
        [
          "Mahayana",
          "Mahayana"
        ],
        [
          "Buddhist",
          "Buddhist"
        ],
        [
          "tradition",
          "tradition"
        ],
        [
          "China",
          "China"
        ],
        [
          "Japan",
          "Japan"
        ],
        [
          "Korea",
          "Korea"
        ],
        [
          "East Asian",
          "East Asian"
        ],
        [
          "countries",
          "country"
        ]
      ],
      "translations": [
        {
          "code": "cmn",
          "lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
          "sense": "percussion instrument",
          "word": "木魚"
        },
        {
          "code": "cmn",
          "lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
          "roman": "mùyú",
          "sense": "percussion instrument",
          "word": "木鱼"
        },
        {
          "code": "fi",
          "lang": "Finnish",
          "sense": "percussion instrument",
          "word": "puukala"
        },
        {
          "code": "de",
          "lang": "German",
          "sense": "percussion instrument",
          "tags": [
            "masculine"
          ],
          "word": "Holzfisch"
        },
        {
          "code": "id",
          "lang": "Indonesian",
          "sense": "percussion instrument",
          "word": "ikan kayu"
        },
        {
          "code": "ja",
          "lang": "Japanese",
          "roman": "mokugyo",
          "sense": "percussion instrument",
          "word": "木魚"
        },
        {
          "code": "ko",
          "lang": "Korean",
          "roman": "mogeo",
          "sense": "percussion instrument",
          "word": "목어"
        },
        {
          "code": "ko",
          "lang": "Korean",
          "roman": "moktak",
          "sense": "percussion instrument",
          "word": "목탁"
        },
        {
          "code": "mnc",
          "lang": "Manchu",
          "roman": "toksitu",
          "sense": "percussion instrument",
          "word": "ᡨᠣᡴᠰᡳᡨᡠ"
        },
        {
          "code": "bo",
          "english": "shing nya",
          "lang": "Tibetan",
          "sense": "percussion instrument",
          "word": "ཤིང་ཉ"
        },
        {
          "code": "vi",
          "lang": "Vietnamese",
          "sense": "percussion instrument",
          "word": "mõ"
        },
        {
          "code": "vi",
          "lang": "Vietnamese",
          "sense": "percussion instrument",
          "word": "mộc ngư"
        }
      ],
      "wikipedia": [
        "wooden fish"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "wooden fish"
}
{
  "etymology_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "en",
        "2": "zh",
        "3": "-"
      },
      "expansion": "Calque of Chinese",
      "name": "calque"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "木魚"
      },
      "expansion": "木魚/木鱼 (mùyú)",
      "name": "zh-l"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_text": "Calque of Chinese 木魚/木鱼 (mùyú).",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "wooden fishes",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "wooden fish",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "es",
        "2": "wooden fish"
      },
      "expansion": "wooden fish (plural wooden fishes or wooden fish)",
      "name": "en-noun"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        "English countable nouns",
        "English entries with incorrect language header",
        "English entries with topic categories using raw markup",
        "English lemmas",
        "English multiword terms",
        "English nouns",
        "English terms calqued from Chinese",
        "English terms derived from Chinese",
        "English terms with non-redundant non-automated sortkeys",
        "Mandarin terms with redundant transliterations",
        "en:Buddhism",
        "en:Percussion instruments"
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "A wooden percussion instrument played by monks and lay people in the Mahayana Buddhist tradition in China, Japan, Korea and other East Asian countries."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "wooden",
          "wooden"
        ],
        [
          "percussion",
          "percussion"
        ],
        [
          "instrument",
          "instrument"
        ],
        [
          "monk",
          "monk"
        ],
        [
          "lay people",
          "lay people"
        ],
        [
          "Mahayana",
          "Mahayana"
        ],
        [
          "Buddhist",
          "Buddhist"
        ],
        [
          "tradition",
          "tradition"
        ],
        [
          "China",
          "China"
        ],
        [
          "Japan",
          "Japan"
        ],
        [
          "Korea",
          "Korea"
        ],
        [
          "East Asian",
          "East Asian"
        ],
        [
          "countries",
          "country"
        ]
      ],
      "wikipedia": [
        "wooden fish"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "translations": [
    {
      "code": "cmn",
      "lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
      "sense": "percussion instrument",
      "word": "木魚"
    },
    {
      "code": "cmn",
      "lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
      "roman": "mùyú",
      "sense": "percussion instrument",
      "word": "木鱼"
    },
    {
      "code": "fi",
      "lang": "Finnish",
      "sense": "percussion instrument",
      "word": "puukala"
    },
    {
      "code": "de",
      "lang": "German",
      "sense": "percussion instrument",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "Holzfisch"
    },
    {
      "code": "id",
      "lang": "Indonesian",
      "sense": "percussion instrument",
      "word": "ikan kayu"
    },
    {
      "code": "ja",
      "lang": "Japanese",
      "roman": "mokugyo",
      "sense": "percussion instrument",
      "word": "木魚"
    },
    {
      "code": "ko",
      "lang": "Korean",
      "roman": "mogeo",
      "sense": "percussion instrument",
      "word": "목어"
    },
    {
      "code": "ko",
      "lang": "Korean",
      "roman": "moktak",
      "sense": "percussion instrument",
      "word": "목탁"
    },
    {
      "code": "mnc",
      "lang": "Manchu",
      "roman": "toksitu",
      "sense": "percussion instrument",
      "word": "ᡨᠣᡴᠰᡳᡨᡠ"
    },
    {
      "code": "bo",
      "english": "shing nya",
      "lang": "Tibetan",
      "sense": "percussion instrument",
      "word": "ཤིང་ཉ"
    },
    {
      "code": "vi",
      "lang": "Vietnamese",
      "sense": "percussion instrument",
      "word": "mõ"
    },
    {
      "code": "vi",
      "lang": "Vietnamese",
      "sense": "percussion instrument",
      "word": "mộc ngư"
    }
  ],
  "word": "wooden fish"
}

This page is a part of the kaikki.org machine-readable English dictionary. This dictionary is based on structured data extracted on 2024-05-01 from the enwiktionary dump dated 2024-04-21 using wiktextract (f4fd8c9 and c9440ce). The data shown on this site has been post-processed and various details (e.g., extra categories) removed, some information disambiguated, and additional data merged from other sources. See the raw data download page for the unprocessed wiktextract data.

If you use this data in academic research, please cite Tatu Ylonen: Wiktextract: Wiktionary as Machine-Readable Structured Data, Proceedings of the 13th Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC), pp. 1317-1325, Marseille, 20-25 June 2022. Linking to the relevant page(s) under https://kaikki.org would also be greatly appreciated.