choy sum

English

Alternative forms

choi sum

Etymology

Borrowed from Cantonese 菜心 (coi3 sam1, literally “vegetable heart”).

Noun

choy sum (uncountable)

A Chinese vegetable, a variety of Brassica rapa parachinensis subspecies, similar to bok choy but slimmer, with smooth green leaves and pale green stems, and clusters of flowers on the tips of the inner shoots

Synonyms

(Brassica rapa parachinensis): Chinese flowering cabbage, caixin

Translations

vegetable

Chinese:
Cantonese: 菜心 (coi³ sam¹)

Mandarin: 菜心 (zh) (càixīn)

Min Nan: 菜心 (chhài-sim)

Japanese: 菜心 (さいしん, saishin)
Korean: 채심 (chaesim) (菜心)

References

Marie Claire Food + Drink by Michele Cranston (Murdoch Books, 2001)

Further reading

Brassica rapa subsp. pekinensis on Wikimedia Commons.Wikimedia Commons
Chinese cabbage on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Anagrams

Yochums, chymous

This article is issued from Wiktionary. The text is licensed under Creative Commons - Attribution - Sharealike. Additional terms may apply for the media files.