wooden fish

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Etymology

Calque from Chinese 木魚／木鱼 (mùyú).

Noun

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.

Translations

percussion instrument

Chinese: Mandarin: 木魚 / 木鱼 (zh) (mùyú) Finnish: puukala (fi) German: Holzfisch m Indonesian: ikan kayu Japanese: 木魚 (ja) (mokugyo) Korean: 목어 (ko) (mogeo), 목탁 (ko) (moktak) Manchu: ᡨᠣᡴᠰᡳᡨᡠ (toksitu) Portuguese: please add this translation if you can Tibetan: ཤིང་ཉ (shing nya) Vietnamese: mõ (vi), mộc ngư