曼波鱼

曼波魚
mànbōyú
noun

Measure Word

Meanings

  1. 1 ocean sunfish (Mola mola)

Examples

Mànbōyú shì shìjiè shàng zuì dà de yìnggǔyú zhī yī.
The ocean sunfish is one of the largest bony fish in the world.
Huālián yúgǎng yǐ mànbōyú liàolǐ chūmíng.
Hualien's fishing port is famous for sunfish dishes.

Tips

culture
The Taiwanese name was a 2002 marketing rebrand: the official name 翻车 ('capsize fish,' from its habit of basking sideways at the surface) sounded unlucky for a food product, so authorities held a contest and crowned 曼波鱼 — a phonetic loan from 'mambo' that evokes the fish's slow, swaying swim.
memory
Picture a giant disc-shaped fish doing the mambo — that's the image the name is selling.

Stroke Order

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