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choy sum

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choy sum

Alternative forms

choi sum

Etymology

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

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, yu choy, yau choy

Translations

vegetable

Chinese:
Cantonese: 菜心 (coi³ sam¹)

Hokkien: 菜心 (chhài-sim)

Mandarin: 菜心 (zh) (càixīn), 菜薹 (zh) (càitái)
Finnish: sellerikaali
Hindi: please add this translation if you can
Japanese: 菜心 (さいしん, saishin)
Korean: 채심(菜心) (chaesim)
Russian: please add this translation if you can
Thai: please add this translation if you can
Vietnamese: cải ngồng

References

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

Further reading

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

Anagrams

Yochums, chymous

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