肉桂

肉桂

Chinese

		meat; flesh	Cinnamomum cassia; Guangxi Autonomous Region (abbrev.)
simp. and trad. (肉桂)		肉	桂

Etymology

From Chinese 肉 ("meat") + 桂 ("gui tree"), to distinguish the cassia and cinnamon trees of the laurel family from the 桂花, the osmanthus of the olive family (all having formerly been known as 桂).

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): ròuguì

  (Zhuyin): ㄖㄡˋ ㄍㄨㄟˋ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): juk⁶ gwai³
• Hakka (Sixian, PFS): ngiuk-kui
• Min Nan

  (Hokkien, POJ): jio̍k-kùi / lio̍k-kùi

  (Teochew, Peng'im): nêg⁸ gui³

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: ròuguì
    • Zhuyin: ㄖㄡˋ ㄍㄨㄟˋ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: ròuguèi
    • Wade–Giles: jou⁴-kuei⁴
    • Yale: ròu-gwèi
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: rowguey
    • Palladius: жоугуй (žouguj)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /ʐoʊ̯⁵¹⁻⁵³ kweɪ̯⁵¹/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou)⁺
    • Jyutping: juk⁶ gwai³
    • Yale: yuhk gwai
    • Cantonese Pinyin: juk⁹ gwai³
    • Guangdong Romanization: yug⁶ guei³
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /jʊk̚² kʷɐi̯³³/
• Hakka
  • (Sixian, incl. Miaoli and Meinong)
    • Pha̍k-fa-sṳ: ngiuk-kui
    • Hakka Romanization System: ngiug` gui
    • Hagfa Pinyim: ngiug⁵ gui⁴
    • Sinological IPA: /ɲi̯uk̚² ku̯i⁵⁵/
• Min Nan
  • (Hokkien: Kaohsiung)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: jio̍k-kùi
    • Tâi-lô: jio̍k-kuì
    • Phofsit Daibuun: jiogkuix
    • IPA (Kaohsiung): /ʑiɔk̚⁴⁻³² kui²¹/
  • (Hokkien: Taipei)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: lio̍k-kùi
    • Tâi-lô: lio̍k-kuì
    • Phofsit Daibuun: liogkuix
    • IPA (Taipei): /liɔk̚⁴⁻³² kui¹¹/
  • (Teochew)
    • Peng'im: nêg⁸ gui³
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī-like: ne̍k kùi
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /nek̚⁴⁻² kui²¹³/

Noun

肉桂

1. cassia (the Chinese cinnamon Cinnamomum cassia)
2. cassia bark (herb used in traditional Chinese medicine for various ailments)
3. related members of the genus Cinnamomum, such as true cinnamon (C. verum), Indonesian cinnamon (Cinnamomum burmanni), and Vietnamese cinnamon (Cinnamomum loureiroi)
4. the bark of such trees

Synonyms

• (cassia): 木桂, 菌桂, 箘桂

References

• “Entry #2713”, in 臺灣閩南語常用詞辭典 [Dictionary of Frequently-Used Taiwan Minnan] (in Chinese and Min Nan), Ministry of Education, R.O.C., 2011.

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Japanese

Kanji in this term
肉	桂
にく > にっ Grade: 2	けい Jinmeiyō
on’yomi

Pronunciation

• (Tokyo) にっけー [nìkkéé] (Heiban – [0])[1]
• (Tokyo) に​っけー [níꜜkkèè] (Atamadaka – [1])[1]
• IPA^(key): [ɲ̟ik̚ke̞ː]

Noun

肉(にっ)桂(けい) • (nikkei) ^{←にくけい (nikukei)?}

1. cinnamon

Synonyms

• シナモン (shinamon)

References

1. 2006, 大辞林 (Daijirin), Third Edition (in Japanese), Tōkyō: Sanseidō, →ISBN