狗脊

Chinese

		dog	spine; back; ridge
trad. (狗脊)		狗	脊
simp. ^#(狗脊)		狗	脊

Pronunciation

Mandarin
(Pinyin): gǒujǐ

(Zhuyin): ㄍㄡˇ ㄐㄧˇ
Southern Min (Hokkien, POJ): káu-chek

Mandarin
- (Standard Chinese)⁺
  - Hanyu Pinyin: gǒujǐ [Phonetic: góujǐ]
  - Zhuyin: ㄍㄡˇ ㄐㄧˇ
  - Tongyong Pinyin: gǒujǐ
  - Wade–Giles: kou³-chi³
  - Yale: gǒu-jǐ
  - Gwoyeu Romatzyh: gooujii
  - Palladius: гоуцзи (gouczi)
  - Sinological IPA ^(key): /koʊ̯²¹⁴⁻³⁵ t͡ɕi²¹⁴⁻²¹⁽⁴⁾/
Southern Min
- (Hokkien)
  - Pe̍h-ōe-jī: káu-chek
  - Tâi-lô: káu-tsik
  - Phofsit Daibuun: kawzeg
  - IPA (Xiamen): /kau⁵³⁻⁴⁴ t͡siɪk̚³²/
  - IPA (Quanzhou): /kau⁵⁵⁴⁻²⁴ t͡siɪk̚⁵/
  - IPA (Zhangzhou): /kau⁵³⁻⁴⁴ t͡siɪk̚³²/
  - IPA (Taipei): /kau⁵³⁻⁴⁴ t͡siɪk̚³²/
  - IPA (Kaohsiung): /kau⁴¹⁻⁴⁴ t͡siɪk̚³²/

Noun

狗脊

rhizome of the tree fern Cibotium (An herb used in traditional Chinese medicine.)

See also

补益药 (bǔyìyào)
药材 (yàocái) (medicinal materials in traditional Chinese medicine)

References

狗脊 on the Chinese Wikipedia.Wikipedia ^zh
Nigel Wiseman, "English-Chinese Chinese-English Dictionary of Chinese Medicine", 1995. →ISBN.

Japanese

Kanji in this term
狗	脊
ぜんまい
Hyōgai	Grade: S
jukujikun

For pronunciation and definitions of 狗脊 – see the following entry.

【薇ぜんまい】H

[noun] [from 1709] Japanese flowering fern (Osmunda japonica), of which the young fiddleheads are edible

Alternative spellings
紫萁, ゼンマイ

(This term, 狗脊, is an alternative spelling (rare) of the above term.)