髮菜

髮菜

Chinese

		hair	dish (type of food); vegetables
trad. (髮菜)		髮	菜
simp. (发菜)		发	菜

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): fàcài, fǎcài

  (Zhuyin): ㄈㄚˋ ㄘㄞˋ, ㄈㄚˇ ㄘㄞˋ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): faat³ coi³

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese, Mainland)⁺
    • Pinyin: fàcài
    • Zhuyin: ㄈㄚˋ ㄘㄞˋ
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: fahtsay
    • IPA ^(key): /fä⁵¹⁻⁵³ t͡sʰaɪ̯⁵¹/
      
  • (Standard Chinese, Taiwan)⁺
    • Pinyin: fǎcài
    • Zhuyin: ㄈㄚˇ ㄘㄞˋ
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: faatsay
    • IPA ^(key): /fä²¹⁴⁻²¹¹ t͡sʰaɪ̯⁵¹/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou)⁺
    • Jyutping: faat³ coi³
    • Yale: faat choi
    • Cantonese Pinyin: faat⁸ tsoi³
    • Guangdong Romanization: fad³ coi³
    • IPA ^(key): /fäːt̚³ t͡sʰɔːy̯³³/

Noun

髮菜

1. fat choy (the terrestrial cyanobacterium Nostoc flagelliforme, which is eaten as a vegetable in Chinese cuisine)

Synonyms

• 頭髮菜／头发菜 (tóufàcài)
• (Min Nan) 頭毛菜／头毛菜

References

• 髮菜 on the Chinese Wikipedia.Wikipedia ^zh
• fat choy on Wikipedia.Wikipedia