Philip Newton (
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2010-06-02 07:33 am (UTC)
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白菜 bái cài literally "white vegetable" — Chinese leaf in the north of China, bok choy in the south
And dollars to doughnuts that "bok choy" is simply the reading of those two characters in some southern variety of Chinese (Cantonese? Hokkien?).
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And dollars to doughnuts that "bok choy" is simply the reading of those two characters in some southern variety of Chinese (Cantonese? Hokkien?).