bok choy

English

baby bok choy

bok choy

Alternative forms

• bak choy, bokchoi, bok choi, pak choi, baicai, pe-tsai, petsai, patchoi

Etymology

Borrowed from Cantonese 白菜 (baak⁶ coi³, “white vegetable”). Doublet of pechay.

Pronunciation

• (General American) enPR: bŏk'choi', IPA^(key): /ˌbɒkˈt͡ʃɔɪ/

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• Rhymes: -ɔɪ

Noun

bok choy (uncountable)

1. Chinese cabbage, Brassica rapa subsp. chinensis, an East Asian leafy vegetable related to the Western cabbage.
   • 1998 October, T. R. Reid, “Feeding the Planet”, in National Geographic‎^[1], number 4, page 75:

     A new highway near Hong Kong has the right-of-way where a farmer now squeezes in a patch of bok choy. In the past decade development has overrun much of China's arable land.

Synonyms

• (Chinese cabbage): Chinese chard, Chinese mustard, celery mustard, spoon cabbage

Coordinate terms

• napa cabbage, Brassica rapa subsp. pekinensis; tatsoi

Translations

Chinese cabbage, Brassica rapa chinensis

• Afrikaans: pak-choi, paksoi
• Arabic: كُرُنْب صِينِيّ m (kurunb ṣīniyy), بُوك تْشُوي m (buk tšuy)
• Burmese: မုန်ညင်းဖြူ (munnyang:hpru)
• Chinese:

  Cantonese: 白菜 (baak⁶ coi³)

  Hokkien: 白菜 (pe̍h-chhài)

  Mandarin: 小白菜 (zh) (xiǎo báicài)

• Esperanto: please add this translation if you can
• Finnish: pinaattikiinankaali, paksoi
• French: pe-tsaï (fr) m, chou chinois (fr) m, chou de Pékin m
• German: Chinakohl (de) m, Pekingkohl m, Japankohl m, Selleriekohl m, Pok Choi, Senfkohl
• Greek: μποκ τσόι n (bok tsói)
• Hebrew: כרוב סיני
• Hungarian: kínai kel (hu)
• Italian: cavolo cinese m, pe-tsai m
• Japanese: 青梗菜 (ja) (チンゲンサイ, chingensai)
• Kannada: ಬಾಯ್ ಚಾಯ್ (bāy cāy)
• Khmer: ស្ពៃតឿ (spɨytɨə)
• Korean: 배추 (ko) (baechu) / 백채(白菜) (baekchae)
• Lao: please add this translation if you can
• Latvian: pakčojs m, Āzijas kāposts m
• Lü: ᦕᧅᦂᦱᧆᦃᦱᧁ (ṗhakk̇aadẋaaw)
• Maltese: kaboċċa Ċiniża
• Mongolian: юуцай (juucaj)
• Navajo: Binááʼ Ádaałtsʼózí bichʼil łigaií
• Polish: kapusta właściwa chińska f
• Portuguese: couve-chinesa f
• Romanian: bok choy (ro), varză chinezească f
• Russian: петса́й m (petsáj), бокчо́й m (bokčój), пеки́нская капу́ста (ru) f (pekínskaja kapústa)
• Spanish: berro chino m, repollo chino m, col china f
• Swedish: kinakål (sv) c
• Tagalog: petsay
• Thai: กวางตุ้ง (th) (gwaang-dtûng)
• Tibetan: པད་ཚལ (pad tshal)
• Turkish: pakçoy
• Uyghur: بەسەي (besey)
• Vietnamese: cải thìa (vi)

References

• bok choy on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• Brassica rapa on Wikispecies.Wikispecies
• Brassica rapa subsp. chinensis on Wikimedia Commons.Wikimedia Commons