塌菜

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Chinese

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collapse dish (type of food); vegetables
trad. (塌菜)
simp. #(塌菜)
spoon mustard

Pronunciation

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Noun

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塌菜

  1. Brassica rapa subsp. narinosa (syns. Brassica narinosa, Brasica rapa var. narinosa, Brassica rapa var. rosularis), an edible green vegetable known variously in English as tatsoi, spinach mustard, spoon mustard, or rosette bok choy.

Further reading

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Japanese

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塌菜 (tātsai, tāsai): a head of tatsoi greens.

Etymology 1

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Kanji in this term
たあつぁい
Hyōgai Grade: 4
jukujikun
 塌菜 on Japanese Wikipedia
 Tatsoi on Wikipedia

From Mandarin 塌菜 (tācài).[1][2]

Pronunciation

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Noun

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塌菜(ターツァイ) (tātsai

  1. Brassica rapa subsp. narinosa (syns. Brassica narinosa, Brasica rapa var. narinosa, Brassica rapa var. rosularis), an edible green vegetable known variously in English as tatsoi, spinach mustard, spoon mustard, or rosette bok choy

Etymology 2

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Kanji in this term
たあさい
Hyōgai Grade: 4
jukujikun

Shift in pronunciation from tātsai above,[2] changing the tsa sound to sa in conformance with native Japanese phonetics.

Pronunciation

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Noun

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塌菜(たあさい) or 塌菜(タアサイ) (tāsai

  1. Brassica rapa subsp. narinosa or Brassica rapa var. rosularis, an edible green vegetable known variously in English as tatsoi, spinach mustard, spoon mustard, or rosette bok choy
Usage notes
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The tāsai reading fits into native Japanese phonetics, and may be more common among some speakers. Some sources [1][2] suggest that the tātsai reading might be considered more correct.

Further reading

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References

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  1. 1.0 1.1 1.2 Matsumura, Akira, editor (2006), 大辞林 [Daijirin] (in Japanese), Third edition, Tokyo: Sanseidō, →ISBN
  2. 2.0 2.1 2.2 Matsumura, Akira (1995) 大辞泉 [Daijisen] (in Japanese), First edition, Tokyo: Shogakukan, →ISBN