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- Chinese · calque of草魚 /草鱼
- English todaygrass carp
Partial calque of Chinese 草魚 /草鱼 (cǎoyú, literally “grass fish”).
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.
grass carp
Today it means: A freshwater fish species of the family Cyprinidae (Ctenopharyngodon idella), native to eastern Asia. Full definition →
Chinese 草魚 /草鱼