藷蔗
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Chinese[edit]
| sugar cane | sugar cane | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| trad. (藷蔗) | 藷 | 蔗 | |
| simp. (𫉄蔗) | 𫉄 | 蔗 | |
| alternative forms | 諸柘／诸柘 諸蔗／诸蔗 | ||
Etymology[edit]
Attested earliest in Sima Xiangru's 子虛(之)賦 "Rhapsody of Master Empty" (translation based on van Ess, 2016, 2020[1]), reproduced in Sima Qian's Records of the Grand Historian:
- 其東則有蕙圃衡（蘅）蘭，芷若射干，穹窮昌蒲，江離麋蕪，諸蔗猼且。 [Classical Chinese, trad.]
- From: The Records of the Grand Historian, by Sima Qian, c. 91 BCE
- Qí dōng zé yǒu huì pǔ (héng) lán, zhǐ ruò shègān, qióngqióng chāngpú, jiānglí míwú, zhūzhè bóqiě. [Pinyin]
- In the east (of a mountain in Yunmeng Marsh) lies a cymbidium garden with asarum and orchid, angelica, pollia, and blackberry lily, Szechuan lovage and sweet flag, Szechuan lovage's sprouts, sugar cane and myoga ginger.
其东则有蕙圃衡（蘅）兰，芷若射干，穹穷昌蒲，江离麋芜，诸蔗猼且。 [Classical Chinese, simp.]
Pronunciation[edit]
Noun[edit]
藷蔗
- (archaic) sugar cane
- 江離蘪蕪，諸柘巴且。 [Classical Chinese, trad.]
- From: c. the 150s BCE, Sima Xiangru (司馬相如), 《子虛賦》. Translated as Sir Fantasy in Burton Watson (1971) Chinese Rhyme-Prose: Poems in the Fu form from the Han and Six Dynasties periods, New York: Columbia University Press, →ISBN, page 32.
- Jiānglí míwú, zhūzhè bājū. [Pinyin]
- Selinea and angelica,
Sugar cane and ginger.
江离蘪芜，诸柘巴且。 [Classical Chinese, simp.]
Synonyms[edit]
References[edit]
- ^ Sima Qian (2016, 2020) “Ssu-ma Hsiang-ju, Memoir 57”, in Hans van Ess, transl., William H. Nienhauser, Jr., editor, The Grand Scribe's Records, volume X, Indiana: Indiana University Press, page 90