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筷子

筷子

Chinese

chopstick
 
child; son; (noun suff.); small thing; midnight; 11 p.m.-1 a.m.; seed; egg; 1st earthly branch
simp. and trad.
(筷子) 		筷 子

Noun

筷子

  1. chopsticks   (Classifier: 雙／双; 對／对; 根 m; 把 m; 副 m)
    一次性筷子  ―  yīcìxìng kuàizi  ―  disposable chopsticks

Synonyms

Dialectal synonyms of 筷子 (“chopsticks”)
Variety Location Words
Classical Chinese 箸、梜
Formal (Written Standard Chinese) 筷子
Mandarin Beijing 筷子
Taiwan 筷子
Tianjin 筷子
Jinan 筷子
Xi'an 筷子
Wuhan 筷子
Chengdu 筷子
Yangzhou 筷子
Hefei 筷子
Cantonese Guangzhou 筷子
Hong Kong 筷子
Taishan 筷子
Yangjiang 筷子
Gan Nanchang 筷子
Hakka Meixian 箸、筷隻、箸隻
Miaoli (N. Sixian) 筷仔
Liudui (S. Sixian) 筷仔
Hsinchu (Hailu) 筷仔、箸
Dongshi (Dabu) 筷、箸
Zhuolan (Raoping) 箸
Yunlin (Zhao'an) 箸
Jin Taiyuan 筷子
Min Bei Jian'ou 箸
Min Dong Fuzhou 箸
Min Nan Quanzhou 箸、箸奇
Xiamen 箸、箸奇、箸雙、奇箸
Zhangzhou 箸、箸奇、奇箸
Taipei 箸
Kaohsiung 箸
Tainan 箸
Taichung 箸
Yilan 箸
Lukang 箸
Sanxia 箸
Kinmen 箸
Magong 箸
Hsinchu 箸
Malaysia 箸
Chaozhou 箸
Shantou 箸
Wu Shanghai 筷、筷子
Suzhou 筷兒
Wenzhou 箸
Xiang Changsha 筷子
Shuangfeng 筷子

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Etymology

The Old Chinese words for "chopsticks" were 箸 (zhù, OC *das) and 梜 (jiā, OC *keːb). 箸 is preserved in Min dialects (Taiwanese tī, tū; Fuzhou dê̤ṳ), Korean 젓가락 (jeotgarak) and Vietnamese đũa. Starting from the Ming Dynasty, the change to 筷子 occurred in Mandarin, Wu and some Cantonese dialects. The 15th century book Shuyuan Miscellanies (《菽園雜記》) by Lu Rong (陸容) mentioned this change:

如舟行諱「住」……，以「箸」為「快兒」 [Classical Chinese, trad.]
如舟行讳“住”……，以“箸”为“快儿” [Classical Chinese, simp.]
Rú zhōuháng huì "zhù"......, yǐ "zhù" wéi "kuàir" [Pinyin]
As the mariners feared 住 (“to stay”) […], they called 箸 (“chopsticks”) 快兒 (lit. "quick").

The bamboo radical (竹) was later added to 快 to form 筷.

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