chopstick

English

Chopsticks

Etymology

From Chinese Pidgin English chop (“quick”) (compare chop-chop) + stick. The first element is a calque from Chinese 筷子 (kuàizi, “chopstick”), derived from 快 (kuài, “quick”).

Pronunciation

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Noun

chopstick (plural chopsticks)

1. A particular East Asian eating utensil, used in pairs and held in the hand. The utensil is a stick, usually made of wood and measuring approximately 23cm (10 inches) in length.
2. (ethnic slur) An Asian person.

Related terms

• chop chop
• stick

Translations

single eating utensil

• Ainu: パスイ (pasuy), イペパスイ (ipepasuy)
• Arabic: أَعْوَاد الْأَكْل pl (ʔaʕwād al-ʔakl), هَاشِي m (hāšī) (from Japanese), عَصَا الْأَكْل m (ʕaṣā l-ʔakl)
• Armenian: փայտիկ (hy) (pʻaytik), ուտելու փայտիկ (utelu pʻaytik)
• Asturian: paliyu m, paliellu m
• Bengali: হাশি (haśi)
• Bouyei: deh
• Bulgarian: пръчица за ядене f (prǎčica za jadene)
• Burmese: တူ (my) (tu)
• Catalan: bastonet (ca) m
• Chinese:

  Cantonese: 筷子 (faai³ zi²)

  Dungan: куэзы (kuezɨ)

  Gan: 筷子 (kuai³ zi)

  Hakka: 筷仔 (khoai-é)

  Jin: 筷子 (kuai³ zeh)

  Mandarin: 筷子 (zh) (kuàizi), 筷兒／筷儿 (zh) (kuàir), 筷儿 (zh) (kuàir), 箸 (zh) (zhù) (literary)

  Min Dong: 箸 (dê̤ṳ)

  Min Nan: 箸 (zh-min-nan) (tī, tū)

  Wu: 筷 (¹khue), 筷子 (¹khue tsr, ¹khua tsr)

  Xiang: 筷子 (kuai⁴ zr)

• Czech: jídelní hůlka f
• Danish: spisepind c
• Dutch: eetstokje (nl) n
• Esperanto: haŝio, manĝbastoneto
• Estonian: söögipulk
• Faroese: etingarpinnur m, matpinnur m
• Finnish: syömäpuikko (fi), puikko (fi)
• French: baguette (fr) f
• Georgian: ჩხირები (čxirebi)
• German: Essstäbchen n
• Greek: ξυλάκι (el) n (xyláki)
• Gujarati: હાશી (hāśī)
• Hawaiian: lāʻau ʻai
• Hebrew: מַקְּלוֹת אֲכִילָה m pl (mak'lót akhilá)
• Hindi: चीनी काँटा (cīnī kā̃ṭā)
• Hlai: tiep
• Hungarian: evőpálcika (hu)
• Icelandic: matarprjónn m, prjónn m
• Indonesian: sumpit (id), penyepit (id), penjepit (id), sepit (id)
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• Irish: cipín itheacháin m
• Isan: please add this translation if you can
• Italian: bacchetta (it) f
• Japanese: 箸 (ja) (はし, hashi), おはし (ja) (o-hashi), 菜箸 (さいばし, saibashi) (cooking/serving only), おてもと, お手許, お手元, 御手許, 御手元 (otemoto), 割り箸 (ja) (わりばし, waribashi) (splittable)
• Khmer: ចង្កឹះ (km) (cɑngkəh), ថ្កៀប (km) (thkiəp)
• Korean: 젓가락 (ko) (jeotgarak), 저가락 (ko) (jeogarak) (North Korea)
• Lao: ໄມ້ຖູ່ (lo) (mai thū), ຖູ່ (thū), ຕະຂຽບ (ta khīap)
• Lü: ᦏᦴᧈ (ṫhuu¹), ᦙᦺᧉᦏᦴᧈ (may²ṫhuu¹), ᦑᦰᦵᦆᧇ (t!xeb)
• Macedonian: стапче за јадење n (stapče za jadenje)
• Malay: penyepit, sepit
• Maltese: stikek tal-injam pl
• Manchu: ᠰᠠᠪᡴᠠ (sabka)
• Maori: kapekape, kakape
• Miyako: please add this translation if you can
• Mongolian: савх (mn) (savx), модон савх (modon savx)
• Norwegian: spisepinne m
• Okinawan: メーシ (meeshi), ウメーシ (umeeshi)
• Polish: pałeczka (pl) f
• Portuguese: pauzinho (pt) m
• Russian: па́лочка для еды́ f (páločka dlja jedý), па́лочка (ru) f (páločka), кита́йские па́лочки f pl (kitájskije páločki) (plural only)
• Shan: please add this translation if you can
• Sichuan Yi: ꎋ (rrup)
• Spanish: palillo (es) m
• Swedish: ätpinne (sv) c
• Tagalog: sipit-Intsik, sipit ng Intsik, ipit-ipit
• Tajik: чӯбчаи хӯрока (tg) (čübča-yi xüroka)
• Thai: ตะเกียบ (dtà-gìiap)
• Tibetan: ཁོ་ཙེ (kho tse)
• Turkish: please add this translation if you can
• Tuvan: сакпыт (sakpıt)
• Uyghur: چوكا (choka)
• Vietnamese: đũa (vi), đũa cả (vi) (for serving rice from a pot), 𥮊, 𥯖
• Volapük: fidastafil (vo)
• Welsh: gweillen fwyta f
• White Hmong: rab rawg tais, rawg
• Zhuang: dawh, guhduh

Verb

chopstick (third-person singular simple present chopsticks, present participle chopsticking, simple past and past participle chopsticked)

1. (transitive, intransitive, informal) To pick up (food) using chopsticks.

See also

• Wikipedia article on chopsticks