快菜

Chinese

fast; quick; swift dish (type of food); vegetables
simp. and trad.
(快菜)		 快 菜
alt. 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

Noun

快菜

  1. (dialectal Cantonese, Hakka, dated in Gan, euphemistic) Chinese leek; Chinese chive (Allium tuberosum)

Synonyms

Dialectal synonyms of 韭菜 (“garlic chives”) [map]
Variety Location Words
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
Jiedian 韭菜
Xi'an 韭菜
Xining 韭菜
Xuzhou 韭菜
Yinchuan 韭菜
Lanzhou 韭菜
Ürümqi 韭菜
Wuhan 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
Cantonese Guangzhou 韭菜
Hong Kong 韭菜
Dongguan 韭菜
Hong Kong (Weitou) 韭菜
Taishan 韭菜
Nanning 扁菜
Wuzhou 快菜
Yulin 韭菜
Hepu 韭菜
Kuala Lumpur 韭菜
Gan Nanchang 韭菜、快菜 dated
Lichuan 韭菜
Pingxiang 韭菜
Hakka Meixian 韭菜、快菜
Luchuan 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
Zhuolan (Raoping) 韭菜
Yunlin (Zhao'an) 韭菜
Hong Kong 韭菜
Sabah 韭菜
Senai 韭菜
Singkawang 快菜
Huizhou Jixi 韭菜
Jin Taiyuan 韭菜
Xinzhou 韭菜
Min Bei Jian'ou 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
Penang 韭菜
Pingnan 韭菜
Johor Bahru 韭菜
Haikou 韭菜
Pinghua Nanning 扁菜、韭菜
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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