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人鱼 — meaning in English

rén yú

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English meaning

  • merman noun A legendary sea creature, the male counterpart to a mermaid, with a human upper body and a fish's tail.
  • triton noun The nucleus of a tritium atom, made up of one proton and two neutrons.

Senses

人鱼 is used for these senses in English:

  • merman A legendary creature, human male from the waist up, fishlike from the waist down.
  • merperson A mythological creature with a human upper half (head, arms, and torso) and a piscine lower half.
  • triton (particle) the nucleus of a tritium atom, consisting of a proton and two neutrons.

triton — full definition

  1. noun The nucleus of a tritium atom, made up of one proton and two neutrons.
  2. noun A type of large sea snail with a pointed spiral shell.

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