木魚

木魚

1. wooden fish (Buddhist wooden percussion instrument)
2. Alternative name for 柴魚／柴鱼 (cháiyú, “dried fish”).
3. short for 木魚歌／木鱼歌

Others:

• → English: wooden fish (calque)

木魚

1. (～鎮) Muyu (a town in Shennongjia, Hubei, China)
2. (～村) Muyu (a village in Muyu, Shennongjia, Hubei, China)

• “木魚”, in 重編國語辭典修訂本 [Revised Mandarin Chinese Dictionary] (in Chinese), National Academy for Educational Research (Taiwan), 2021.
• 周存 [Zhōu, Cún], editor (2023), “木鱼”, in 长汀话词典 CHANGTINGHUA CIDIAN [Dictionary of Changting Dialect] (overall work in Hakka and Mandarin), Guangzhou: 世界图书出版有限公司 [World Book Publishing Co., Ltd.], →ISBN, page 414.

From Middle Chinese 木魚 (MC muwk ngjo). (Can this⁽⁺⁾ etymology be sourced?).

Sense 3 comes from likening the appearance of the pregnant belly to the round hollow wooden fish.

• (Tokyo) もくぎょ [móꜜkùgyò] (Atamadaka – [1])^[1]
• IPA^(key): [mo̞kɯ̟ɡʲo̞]

木(もく)魚(ぎょ) • (mokugyo) 

1. (Buddhism) wooden fish:
   1. a wooden percussion instrument in the shape of a fish used to signal monks to their duties
   2. a round, hollow, vaguely fish-shaped wooden percussion instrument used during recitations of Buddhist sutras

      Synonym: 魚柝 (gyotaku)

2. (colloquial) katsuobushi
4. (slang) an impregnated married woman

• 木(もく)魚講(ぎょこう) (mokugyokō)
• 木魚(もくぎょ)入(い)り合(あい)方(かた) (mokugyo iri aikata)

• ぽくぽく (pokupoku, “onomatopoeia of striking a wooden fish”)

• “木魚”, in 漢字ぺディア [Kanjipedia]‎^[1] (in Japanese), The Japan Kanji Aptitude Testing Foundation, 2015–2026

木魚 • (mogeo) (hangeul 목어)

1. hanja form^? of 목어 (“wooden fish”)