ChineseEdit
| meat; flesh | Cinnamonum cassia; Guangxi Autonomous Region (abbrev.) | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| simp. and trad. (肉桂) |
肉 | 桂 | |
EtymologyEdit
From Chinese 肉 ("meat") + 桂 ("gui tree"), to distinguish the cassia and cinnamon trees of the laurel family from the 桂花, the osmanthus of the olive family (all having formerly been known as 桂)
PronunciationEdit
- Mandarin
- Cantonese (Jyutping): juk6 gwai3
- Hakka (Pha̍k-fa-sṳ): ngiuk-kui
- Min Nan (POJ): jio̍k-kùi / lio̍k-kùi
- Mandarin
- (Standard Chinese, Beijing)+
- Pinyin:
- Zhuyin: ㄖㄡˋ ㄍㄨㄟˋ
- Gwoyeu Romatzyh: rowguey
- IPA (key): /ʐoʊ̯⁵¹⁻⁵³ ku̯eɪ̯⁵¹/
- (Standard Chinese, Beijing)+
- Cantonese
- (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou)+
- Jyutping: juk6 gwai3
- Yale: yuhk gwai
- Cantonese Pinyin: juk9 gwai3
- IPA (key): /jʊk̚² kʷɐi̯³³/
- (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou)+
- Hakka
- Romanisations:
- Pha̍k-fa-sṳ: ngiuk-kui
- IPA (Siyen, including Miaoli): /ɲi̯uk̚² ku̯i⁵⁵/
- Romanisations:
- Min Nan
NounEdit
肉桂
- cassia, the Chinese cinnamon (Cinnamomum cassia)
- cassia bark, an herb used in traditional Chinese medicine for various ailments
- related members of the genus Cinnamomum, such as true cinnamon (C. verum), Indonesian cinnamon (Cinnamomum burmannii), and Vietnamese cinnamon (Cinnamomum loureiroi)
- the bark of such trees
See alsoEdit
- 药材 (medicinal materials of traditional Chinese medicine)
ReferencesEdit
肉桂 on the Chinese Wikipedia.zh.Wikipedia- Nigel Wiseman, "English-Chinese Chinese-English Dictionary of Chinese Medicine", 1995. ISBN: 7-5357-1656-3.
- http://www.trade.gov.bt/administration/mktbriefs/10.pdf
- http://www.koreantk.com/en/m_sta/med_stat_search.jsp?searchGbn=statis
- http://www1.dict.li/ and http://www.nciku.com/
