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There are 14 total results for your Melani search.

Characters Pronunciation
Romanization
Simple Dictionary Definition

see styles
quán
    quan2
ch`üan
    chüan
 minabuchi
    みなぶち
to curl up (like a scroll); to huddle; Melania libertina; wriggle (as a worm)
(surname) Minabuchi

釘螺


钉螺

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dīng luó
    ding1 luo2
ting lo
Oncomelania

黑素

see styles
hēi sù
    hei1 su4
hei su
melanin; black pigment

宮入貝

see styles
 miyairigai; miyairigai
    みやいりがい; ミヤイリガイ
(kana only) (See 片山貝) miyairigai (Oncomelania hupensis nosophora); freshwater snail that acts as an intermediate host of the Japanese blood fluke

片山貝

see styles
 katayamagai; katayamagai
    かたやまがい; カタヤマガイ
(kana only) Oncomelania hupensis nosophora (species of tropical freshwater snail)

黑色素

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hēi sè sù
    hei1 se4 su4
hei se su
black pigment; melanin

メラニン

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 meranin
    メラニン
(noun - becomes adjective with の) melanin

黑海番鴨


黑海番鸭

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hēi hǎi fān yā
    hei1 hai3 fan1 ya1
hei hai fan ya
(bird species of China) black scoter (Melanitta nigra)

斑臉海番鴨


斑脸海番鸭

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bān liǎn hǎi fān yā
    ban1 lian3 hai3 fan1 ya1
pan lien hai fan ya
(bird species of China) white-winged scoter (Melanitta deglandi)

淡色木間蝶

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 usuirokonomachou; usuirokonomachou / usuirokonomacho; usuirokonomacho
    うすいろこのまちょう; ウスイロコノマチョウ
(kana only) evening brown butterfly (Melanitis leda); common evening brown

カタヤマガイ

see styles
 katayamagai
    カタヤマガイ
(kana only) Oncomelania hupensis nosophora (species of tropical freshwater snail)

ミヤイリガイ

see styles
 miyairigai
    ミヤイリガイ
(kana only) miyairigai (Oncomelania hupensis nosophora); freshwater snail that acts as an intermediate host of the Japanese blood fluke

ウスイロコノマチョウ

see styles
 usuirokonomachou / usuirokonomacho
    ウスイロコノマチョウ
(kana only) evening brown butterfly (Melanitis leda); common evening brown

メラニン凝集ホルモン

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 meraningyoushuuhorumon / meraningyoshuhorumon
    メラニンぎょうしゅうホルモン
{biol} melanin-concentrating hormone

Entries with 2nd row of characters: The 2nd row is Simplified Chinese.

This page contains 14 results for "Melani" in Chinese and/or Japanese.



Information about this dictionary:

Apparently, we were the first ones who were crazy enough to think that western people might want a combined Chinese, Japanese, and Buddhist dictionary.

A lot of westerners can't tell the difference between Chinese and Japanese - and there is a reason for that. Chinese characters and even whole words were borrowed by Japan from the Chinese language in the 5th century. Much of the time, if a word or character is used in both languages, it will have the same or a similar meaning. However, this is not always true. Language evolves, and meanings independently change in each language.

Example: The Chinese character 湯 for soup (hot water) has come to mean bath (hot water) in Japanese. They have the same root meaning of "hot water", but a 湯屋 sign on a bathhouse in Japan would lead a Chinese person to think it was a "soup house" or a place to get a bowl of soup. See this: Japanese Bath House

This dictionary uses the EDICT and CC-CEDICT dictionary files.
EDICT data is the property of the Electronic Dictionary Research and Development Group, and is used in conformance with the Group's license.

Chinese Buddhist terms come from Dictionary of Chinese Buddhist Terms by William Edward Soothill and Lewis Hodous. This is commonly referred to as "Soothill's'". It was first published in 1937 (and is now off copyright so we can use it here). Some of these definitions may be misleading, incomplete, or dated, but 95% of it is good information. Every professor who teaches Buddhism or Eastern Religion has a copy of this on their bookshelf. We incorporated these 16,850 entries into our dictionary database ourselves (it was lot of work).



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