うきぶくろ

Japanese
Alternative spellings
浮き袋
浮袋
浮き囊 (rare)
鰾

Etymology

From 浮(う)き (uki, “連(れん)用(よう)形(けい) (ren'yōkei, “stem or continuative form”) of the verb 浮(う)く (uku).”) + 袋(ふくろ) (fukuro). The fukuro changes to bukuro as an instance of rendaku (連濁).

Pronunciation

Module error: The module returned a nil value. It is supposed to return an export table.

Noun

うきぶくろ • (ukibukuro) ←うきぶくろ (ukibukuro)?

  1. swim bladder

References
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