date:Aug 29, 2018
is officially/scientifically translated as 鮭亞科 (pron: Gui ya ke)
From this perspective, it shall be agreed that the term sanwenyu although widely used is in fact not a scientific term.
In practice, however, in real daily life, sanwenyu is the most used term by Chiense consumers to refer to salmon, and as a Mandarin-speaking foreigner in China since more than a decade I have to admit that I only knew sanwenyu as translation for salmon.
Yet, some linguistic researches eventually made me reali