Etymology

caixin

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Today it means: choy sum Full definition →

Mandarin 菜心
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The story

  1. Mandarin · borrowed from菜心“vegetable heart”
  2. English todaycaixin

From Mandarin 菜心 (càixīn, “vegetable heart”). Doublet of choy sum.

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.