通菜 (tung1 coi3 | ) : [粵] water spinach, Chinese spinach; [普] low-quality vegetables;

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通菜

tung1 coi3

[粵] water spinach, Chinese spinach | also 蕹菜, 翁菜
[普]: low-quality vegetables
[國] 空心菜

In Cantonese, "water spinch" was originally called 蕹菜. But the written form of 蕹 looks like 擁, which means "jammed" and was considered inauspicious. The opposite of "jammed" is "through", i.e. 通. The vegetable is thus renamed 通菜, which now sounds like "leading to wealth" (通財).

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This term is used in both Cantonese and Mandarin/Standard written Chinese.

通菜

This word has been viewed 4915 times since 30th Oct 2012, was added by bybell on 30th Oct 2005 21:35 and last edited on 25th Feb 2015 00:22

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通 tung1 - through; notify; general; know
菜 coi3 - vegetables; dish

2 compounds containing this word:

腐乳通菜 - ong choy water spinach with bean curd
通菜街 - Tung Choi Street

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