菠菜

菠菜

Chinese

		phonetic	dish (type of food); vegetables
trad. (菠菜)		菠	菜
simp. #(菠菜)		菠	菜

Spinach

Etymology

From earlier 波斯菜 (bōsīcài), from 波斯 (Bōsī, “Persia”) + 菜 (cài, “greens, vegetable”). Alternatively, short for 菠薐菜 (bōléngcài). Compare the etymology of English spinach.

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): bōcài

  (Zhuyin): ㄅㄛ ㄘㄞˋ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): bo¹ coi³
• Min Nan (POJ): po-chhài

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Pinyin: bōcài
    • Zhuyin: ㄅㄛ ㄘㄞˋ
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: botsay
    • Tongyong Pinyin: bocài
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /pwɔ⁵⁵ t͡sʰaɪ̯⁵¹/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou)⁺
    • Jyutping: bo¹ coi³
    • Yale: bō choi
    • Cantonese Pinyin: bo¹ tsoi³
    • Guangdong Romanization: bo¹ coi³
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /pɔː⁵⁵ t͡sʰɔːy̯³³/
• Min Nan
  • (Hokkien: Xiamen, Quanzhou, Zhangzhou)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: po-chhài
    • Tâi-lô: po-tshài
    • Phofsit Daibuun: poizhaix
    • IPA (Xiamen, Zhangzhou): /po⁴⁴⁻²² t͡sʰaɪ²¹/
    • IPA (Quanzhou): /po³³ t͡sʰaɪ⁴¹/

Noun

菠菜

1. spinach

Synonyms

Dialectal synonyms of 菠菜 (“spinach”) [map]
Variety	Location	Words edit
Classical Chinese		菠菜
Formal (Written Standard Chinese)		菠菜
Mandarin	Beijing	菠菜
	Tianjin	菠菜
	Jinan	菠菜
	Wuhan	菠菜
	Chengdu	菠菜
	Yangzhou	菠菜
	Hefei	菠菜
Cantonese	Guangzhou	菠菜
	Hong Kong	菠菜
	Taishan	菠菜
	Yangjiang	菠薐菜
Gan	Nanchang	菠菜
Hakka	Meixian	角菜, 菠菜
	Miaoli (N. Sixian)	角菜
	Liudui (S. Sixian)	角菜
	Hsinchu (Hailu)	角菜
	Dongshi (Dabu)	角菜
	Hsinchu (Raoping)	角菜
	Yunlin (Zhao'an)	角子菜
Jin	Taiyuan	菠菜, 青菜
Min Bei	Jian'ou	菠薐
Min Dong	Fuzhou	菠薐菜, 菠薐
Min Nan	Xiamen	菠薐菜, 赤根菜
	Quanzhou	菠倫菜
	Zhangzhou	菠薐菜
	Taipei	菠薐仔
	Kaohsiung	菠薐仔
	Tainan	菠薐仔
	Taichung	菠薐仔
	Hsinchu	菠薐菜
	Lukang	菠薐仔
	Sanxia	菠薐仔
	Yilan	菠薐仔
	Kinmen	菠薐菜
	Magong	菠薐
	Philippines (Manila)	菠倫菜
	Chaozhou	菠薐
Wu	Suzhou	菠菜
	Wenzhou	菠薐菜, 菠薐
Xiang	Changsha	菠菜, 扯根菜
	Shuangfeng	扯根菜