baiji en · NOUN · etymology 1
Pronunciation
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- /ˈbaɪd͡ʒi/
Etymology
From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of Mandarin 白鱀豚 /白𬶨豚 (báijìtún).
Meanings
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A freshwater dolphin (†Lipotes vexillifer), only found in the Yangtze River, and declared functionally extinct in 2006.
In 2006, he made a research trip to China to look for the baiji, also known as the Yangtze River dolphin. He and his colleagues searched the legendary river’s entire 1,700-kilometer main channel, twice. They counted nearly 20,000 large shipping vessels and more than a thousand fishing boats, but no river dolphins. At the end of their quest, they declared that the species was likely extinct, a conclusion now widely supported. For all the terrible harm that humans have done to cetaceans, drastically reducing their abundance and range, the baiji was the first of them that we ever completely extinguished. It happened in the 21st century.
2021 March 30, J. B. MacKinnon, “An Entire Group of Whales Has Somehow Escaped Human Attention”, in The Atlantic:
Forms
| Spelling | Features | Labels | Source |
|---|---|---|---|
| baiji | Number=Plur | lexicographic | |
| baijis | Number=Plur | lexicographic |
Synonyms
Chinese white dolphin · whitefin dolphin · Chinese river dolphin · Yangtze River dolphin · Yangtze dolphin
Translations (41)
hu kínai delfin (freshwater dolphin) · cmn 白鱀豚 /白𬶨豚 (freshwater dolphin) · da kinesisk floddelfin (freshwater dolphin) · cmn 白鰭豚 /白鳍豚 (freshwater dolphin) · ca dofí del Iang-tsé (freshwater dolphin) · sco Cheenese river dowphin (freshwater dolphin) · ga deilf na hIaing-tsí (freshwater dolphin) · tr çin nehir yunusu (freshwater dolphin) · pl delfin chiński (freshwater dolphin) · ca dofí de riu xinès (freshwater dolphin) · it lipote (freshwater dolphin) · de Baiji (freshwater dolphin) · az çin çay delfini (freshwater dolphin) · de Chinesische Flussdelfin (freshwater dolphin) · yue 白鰭豚 /白鳍豚 (freshwater dolphin) · uk дельфін озерний (freshwater dolphin) · br delfin sina (freshwater dolphin) · nn kinesisk elvedelfin (freshwater dolphin) · yue 白鱀豚 /白𬶨豚 (freshwater dolphin) · fr dauphin du Yangzi (freshwater dolphin) · kk байцзи (freshwater dolphin) · lt kininis ežerinis delfinas (freshwater dolphin) · ru байцзи́ (freshwater dolphin) · ja ヨウスコウカワイルカ (freshwater dolphin) · fr baiji (freshwater dolphin) · es baiji (freshwater dolphin) · ko 양쯔강돌고래 (freshwater dolphin) · pt golfinho-lacustre-chinês (freshwater dolphin) · pl baji chiński (freshwater dolphin) · es delfín chino de río (freshwater dolphin) · ro delfinul chinezesc (freshwater dolphin) · sl kitajski rečni delfin (freshwater dolphin) · fi kiinanjokidelfiinni (freshwater dolphin) · sl jangceška pliskavka (freshwater dolphin) · nb kinesisk elvedelfin (freshwater dolphin) · nl chinese vlagdolfijn (freshwater dolphin) · eo blanknaĝila delfeno (freshwater dolphin) · sv asiatisk floddelfin (freshwater dolphin) · th โลมาแม่น้ำจีน (freshwater dolphin) · cs delfínovec čínský (freshwater dolphin) · fr dauphin de Chine (freshwater dolphin)