椰菜花
Chinese
| coconut vegetable; cabbage; cauliflower | flower; blossom; to spend flower; blossom; to spend; fancy pattern | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| trad. (椰菜花) | 椰菜 | 花 | |
| simp. #(椰菜花) | 椰菜 | 花 | |
| anagram | 花椰菜 | ||
Etymology
(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium. Particularly: “calque of cauliflower?”)
Pronunciation
- Mandarin
- (Standard Chinese, Mainland)+
- Hanyu Pinyin: yēcàihuā
- Zhuyin: ㄧㄝ ㄘㄞˋ ㄏㄨㄚ
- Tongyong Pinyin: yecàihua
- Wade–Giles: yeh1-tsʻai4-hua1
- Yale: yē-tsài-hwā
- Gwoyeu Romatzyh: ietsayhua
- Palladius: ецайхуа (jecajxua)
- Sinological IPA (key): /jɛ⁵⁵ t͡sʰaɪ̯⁵¹ xu̯ä⁵⁵/
- (Standard Chinese, Taiwan)+
- Hanyu Pinyin: yécàihuā
- Zhuyin: ㄧㄝˊ ㄘㄞˋ ㄏㄨㄚ
- Tongyong Pinyin: yécàihua
- Wade–Giles: yeh2-tsʻai4-hua1
- Yale: yé-tsài-hwā
- Gwoyeu Romatzyh: yetsayhua
- Palladius: ецайхуа (jecajxua)
- Sinological IPA (key): /jɛ³⁵ t͡sʰaɪ̯⁵¹ xu̯ä⁵⁵/
- (Standard Chinese, Mainland)+
- Cantonese
- (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)+
- Jyutping: je4 coi3 faa1
- Yale: yèh choi fā
- Cantonese Pinyin: je4 tsoi3 faa1
- Guangdong Romanization: yé4 coi3 fa1
- Sinological IPA (key): /jɛː²¹ t͡sʰɔːi̯³³ faː⁵⁵/
- (Taishanese, Taicheng)
- Wiktionary: yie3 toi1 fa1
- Sinological IPA (key): /jiɛ²² tʰᵘɔi³³ fa³³/
- (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)+
- Hakka
Noun
椰菜花
- (chiefly Cantonese, Guangdong Hakka, Zhongshan Min) cauliflower
- (Hong Kong Cantonese, colloquial) genital wart
Synonyms
Dialectal synonyms of 花椰菜 (“cauliflower”) [map]