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Philip Newton ([personal profile] pne) wrote in [personal profile] kake 2010-06-02 07:33 am (UTC)

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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