choy sum

English

Alternative forms

• choi sum

Etymology

Borrowed from Cantonese 菜心 (coi3 sam1, literally “vegetable heart”). Doublet of caixin.

Noun

choy sum (uncountable)

1. A Chinese vegetable, a variety of Brassica rapa parachinensis subspecies, similar to bok choy but slimmer, with smooth green leaves and pale green stems, and clusters of flowers on the tips of the inner shoots

Synonyms

• (Brassica rapa parachinensis): Chinese flowering cabbage, caixin, yu choy, yau choy

Translations

vegetable

• Chinese:

  Cantonese: 菜心 (coi³ sam¹)

  Hokkien: 菜心 (chhài-sim)

  Mandarin: 菜心 (zh) (càixīn), 菜薹 (zh) (càitái)

• Finnish: sellerikaali
• Hindi: please add this translation if you can
• Japanese: 菜心 (さいしん, saishin)
• Korean: 채심(菜心) (chaesim)
• Russian: please add this translation if you can
• Thai: please add this translation if you can
• Vietnamese: cải ngồng

References

• Marie Claire Food + Drink by Michele Cranston (Murdoch Books, 2001)

Further reading

• Category:Brassica rapa subsp. pekinensis on Wikimedia Commons.Wikimedia Commons
• Chinese cabbage on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Anagrams

• Yochums, chymous