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  zyu6   jyutping
  zhu4   pinyin
chopsticks; classifier for food

is the original word for "chopsticks", pronounced as zyu6 in Cantonese and zhu4 in Mandarin, both being exactly the same as is pronounced. has a meaning of "stop" or "cease" which is considered to be inauspicious. The opposite meaning of "stop" is sth like "fast". So (meaning "fast") was used and is later changed to 筷子 or simply .
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This character is used in both Cantonese and Mandarin/Standard written Chinese.

This word has been viewed 2872 times since 30th Oct 2012, was added by 穆斯林 on 3rd Aug 2009 03:13 and last edited on 1st Jan 2014 14:17

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