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紫菜
紫菜
Chinese
| purple | dish (type of food); vegetables | ||
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simp. and trad. (紫菜) |
紫 | 菜 | |
Noun
紫菜
- (botany) laver
- flavored roasted seaweed; sea vegetable; generic term for edible seaweed; (Japanese) nori
- (Min Dong) eggplant; aubergine
Synonyms
| Dialectal synonyms of 茄子 (“eggplant; aubergine”) | ||
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| Variety | Location | Words |
| Formal (Written Standard Chinese) | 茄子 | |
| Taxonomic name | 茄 | |
| Mandarin | Beijing | 茄子 |
| Taiwan | 茄子 | |
| Jinan | 茄子 | |
| Xi'an | 茄子 | |
| Wuhan | 茄子 | |
| Chengdu | 茄子 | |
| Yangzhou | 茄子 | |
| Hefei | 茄子 | |
| Cantonese | Guangzhou | 矮瓜、茄瓜 |
| Hong Kong | 矮瓜、茄瓜 | |
| Taishan | 茄 | |
| Yangjiang | 茄子 | |
| Gan | Nanchang | 茄子 |
| Hakka | Meixian | 吊菜、茄仔 |
| Miaoli (N. Sixian) | 吊菜仔、茄仔 | |
| Liudui (S. Sixian) | 吊菜仔、茄仔 | |
| Hsinchu (Hailu) | 吊菜仔、茄仔 | |
| Dongshi (Dabu) | 吊菜、茄 | |
| Zhuolan (Raoping) | 茄 | |
| Yunlin (Zhao'an) | 茄 | |
| Jin | Taiyuan | 茄子 |
| Min Bei | Jian'ou | 茄 |
| Min Dong | Fuzhou | 紫菜 |
| Min Nan | Xiamen | 茄 |
| Taipei | 茄 | |
| Kaohsiung | 紅菜 | |
| Tainan | 紅菜 | |
| Chaozhou | 茄 | |
| Wu | Shanghai | 茄子、落蘇 |
| Suzhou | 茄子 | |
| Wenzhou | 茄兒、落茄 | |
| Xiang | Changsha | 茄子 |
| Shuangfeng | 茄子 | |