快菜

Chinese

	fast; quick; swift	dish (type of food); vegetables
trad. (快菜)	快	菜
simp. ^#(快菜)	快	菜
variant forms	筷菜

Etymology

Sailors' euphemism for 韭菜. Due to homophony of 韭 and 久 (“long (time)”), 韭 is replaced with 快 (“fast; quick”). Compare 筷子 (kuàizi, “chopsticks”).

Pronunciation

Gan (Wiktionary): 'kuai³ cai³
Hakka
(Sixian, PFS): khoai-chhoi

(Meixian, Guangdong): kuai⁴ coi⁴

Gan
- (Nanchang)
  - Wiktionary: 'kuai³ cai³
  - IPA ^(key): /ˈkʰuai²¹³⁻²⁴ t͡sʰai²¹³/
Hakka
- (Sixian, incl. Miaoli and Meinong)
  - Pha̍k-fa-sṳ: khoai-chhoi
  - Hakka Romanization System: kuai coi
  - Hagfa Pinyim: kuai⁴ coi⁴
  - IPA: /kʰu̯ai̯⁵⁵ t͡sʰoi̯⁵⁵/
- (Meixian)
  - Guangdong: kuai⁴ coi⁴
  - IPA: /kʰuaɪ⁵³⁻⁵⁵ t͡sʰoɪ⁵³/

Noun

快菜

(dialectal Cantonese, Hakka, dated in Gan, euphemistic) Chinese leek; Chinese chives (Allium tuberosum)

Synonyms

Dialectal synonyms of 韭菜 (“garlic chives”) [map]
Variety	Location	Words edit
Classical Chinese		韭
Formal (Written Standard Chinese)		韭菜
Mandarin	Beijing	韭菜
	Taiwan	韭菜
	Harbin	韭菜
	Shenyang	韭菜
	Jinan	韭菜
	Muping	韭菜
	Luoyang	韭菜
	Wanrong	韭菜
	Xi'an	韭菜
	Xining	韭菜
	Xuzhou	韭菜
	Yinchuan	韭菜
	Lanzhou	韭菜
	Ürümqi	韭菜
	Wuhan	韭菜
	Huanggang	韭菜
	Chengdu	韭菜
	Guiyang	韭菜
	Guilin	韭菜
	Liuzhou	韭菜, 扁菜
	Kunming	韭菜
	Yangzhou	韭菜
	Nanjing	韭菜
	Hefei	韭菜
	Nantong	韭菜
	Malaysia	韭菜
	Singapore	韭菜
	Sokuluk (Gansu Dungan)	韭菜
Cantonese	Guangzhou	韭菜
	Hong Kong	韭菜
	Hong Kong (San Tin Weitou)	韭菜
	Hong Kong (Ting Kok)	韭菜
	Hong Kong (Tung Ping Chau)	韭菜
	Taishan	韭菜
	Dongguan	韭菜
	Nanning	扁菜
	Wuzhou	快菜
	Yulin	韭菜
	Hepu	韭菜
	Kuala Lumpur	韭菜
	Ho Chi Minh City	韭菜
Gan	Nanchang	韭菜, 快菜 dated
	Lichuan	韭菜
	Pingxiang	韭菜
Hakka	Meixian	韭菜, 快菜
	Zengcheng (Zhengguo)	韭菜
	Zhongshan (Wuguishan)	韭菜
	Wuhua (Shuizhai)	韭菜, 快菜
	Wuhua (Huacheng)	快菜
	Wuhua (Changbu)	韭菜
	Wuhua (Mianyang)	韭菜
	Luchuan (Daqiao)	韭菜
	Yudu	韭菜, 快菜 sailors
	Miaoli (N. Sixian)	快菜
	Liudui (S. Sixian)	快菜
	Hsinchu (Hailu)	韭菜
	Dongshi (Dabu)	韭菜
	Hsinchu (Raoping)	韭菜
	Yunlin (Zhao'an)	韭菜
	Hong Kong	韭菜
	Sabah (Longchuan)	韭菜
	Senai	韭菜
	Singkawang	快菜
Huizhou	Jixi	韭菜
Jin	Taiyuan	韭菜
	Xinzhou	韭菜
	Hohhot	韭菜
Min Bei	Jian'ou	韭仔
Min Bei	Wuyishan	韭仔
Min Dong	Fuzhou	韭菜
	Fuqing	韭菜
	Matsu	韭菜
Min Nan	Xiamen	韭菜
	Quanzhou	韭菜
	Zhangzhou	韭菜
	Taipei	韭菜
	Kaohsiung	韭菜
	Sanxia	韭菜
	Yilan	韭菜
	Kinmen	韭菜
	Magong	韭菜
	Penang	韭菜
	Singapore	韭菜
	Philippines (Manila)	韭菜
	Zhangping (Yongfu)	韭菜
	Datian	韭菜仔
	Pingnan	韭菜
	Johor Bahru	韭菜
	Haikou	韭菜
Puxian Min	Putian	韭菜
Pinghua	Nanning	扁菜, 韭菜
Pinghua	Guilin	韭菜
Wu	Shanghai	韭菜
	Suzhou	韭菜
	Hangzhou	韭菜
	Wenzhou	韭菜
	Chongming	韭菜
	Danyang	韭菜
	Jinhua	韭菜
	Ningbo	韭菜
Xiang	Changsha	韭菜
	Shuangfeng	韭菜
	Loudi	韭菜
	Quanzhou	韭菜

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