頭髮菜

Chinese

		hair on the head	dish (type of food); vegetables
trad. (頭髮菜)		頭髮	菜
simp. (头发菜)		头发	菜

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): tóufacài, tóufǎcài

  (Zhuyin): ㄊㄡˊ ˙ㄈㄚ ㄘㄞˋ, ㄊㄡˊ ㄈㄚˇ ㄘㄞˋ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): tau⁴ faat³ coi³

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese, Mainland)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: tóufacài
    • Zhuyin: ㄊㄡˊ ˙ㄈㄚ ㄘㄞˋ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: tóufåcài
    • Wade–Giles: tʻou²-fa⁵-tsʻai⁴
    • Yale: tóu-fa-tsài
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: tour.fatsay
    • Palladius: тоуфацай (toufacaj)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /tʰoʊ̯³⁵ fä³ t͡sʰaɪ̯⁵¹/
      
  • (Standard Chinese, Taiwan)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: tóufǎcài
    • Zhuyin: ㄊㄡˊ ㄈㄚˇ ㄘㄞˋ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: tóufǎcài
    • Wade–Giles: tʻou²-fa³-tsʻai⁴
    • Yale: tóu-fǎ-tsài
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: tourfaatsay
    • Palladius: тоуфацай (toufacaj)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /tʰoʊ̯³⁵ fä²¹⁴⁻²¹ t͡sʰaɪ̯⁵¹/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)⁺
    • Jyutping: tau⁴ faat³ coi³
    • Yale: tàuh faat choi
    • Cantonese Pinyin: tau⁴ faat⁸ tsoi³
    • Guangdong Romanization: teo⁴ fad³ coi³
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /tʰɐu̯²¹ faːt̚³ t͡sʰɔːi̯³³/

Noun

頭髮菜

1. fat choy (the terrestrial cyanobacterium Nostoc flagelliforme, which is eaten as a vegetable in Chinese cuisine)

Synonyms

Dialectal synonyms of 髮菜 (“hair moss; fat choy”) [map]

Variety	Location	Words edit
Formal (Written Standard Chinese)		髮菜, 頭髮菜
Northeastern Mandarin	Taiwan	髮菜
	Singapore	髮菜
Central Plains Mandarin	Xining	髮菜
Lanyin Mandarin	Yinchuan	頭髮菜
Southwestern Mandarin	Liuzhou	髮菜
Cantonese	Guangzhou	髮菜
	Hong Kong	髮菜
	Taishan	髮菜
	Singapore (Guangfu)	髮菜
Hakka	Meixian	髮菜
	Huizhou (Huicheng Bendihua)	髮菜
	Pingtung (Neipu; S. Sixian)	髮菜
	Pingtung (Wuluo, Ligang; S. Sixian)	頭毛菜
	Kaohsiung (Meinong; S. Sixian)	頭那毛菜
	Kaohsiung (Shanlin; S. Sixian)	頭毛菜
Southern Min	Xiamen	頭毛菜
	Zhangzhou	頭毛菜
	Kaohsiung	頭毛菜
	Yilan (Toucheng)	頭毛菜
	Tainan	頭毛菜
	Tainan (Anping)	頭毛菜
	Singapore (Hokkien)	髮菜, 頭毛菜
	Manila (Hokkien)	髮菜, 頭毛菜
	Bangkok (Teochew)	髮菜, 頭毛菜
	Chiang Mai (Teochew)	髮菜, 毛菜
Wu	Shanghai	髮菜
	Suzhou	頭髮菜
	Hangzhou	髮菜, 頭髮菜
Xiang	Changsha	髮菜