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Loan Word
Chinese Characters
*Choy sum 蔡心
Confucius 孔夫子
Congou 工夫
Cumshaw 感謝
*Chung Young 重陽
*Dimsum 點心
*Ding how 真好
*Fanqui, 番鬼
fankwei 番鬼
Fan-tan 番攤
Fen 分
Feng shui, fung shui 風水
Fo 佛
*Foki 伙計
Foo yong, fu yung 芙蓉
Galingale 高良薑
Ginseng 人蔘
Meaning
A species of leafy Chinese vegetable, with yellow flowers.
K'ung Fu-tse n. the Chinese name of Confucius.
A kind of black tea imported from China.
In the Chinese ports: A gratuity.
A Chinese festival falling on the ninth day of the ninth moon on which according to traditional belief people have to go up to high places to avoid calamity. Also a day for sweeping ancestral graves.
Tidbits eaten at a Cantonese repast taken either in the early morning or at lunch time known as yum cha or 'drinking tea'. Literally meaning 'the most excellent best'.
Literally 'barbarian ghost', used to refer to westerners in the early days of contact between China and the west.
A Chinese gambling game in which a random number of counters are placed under a bowl and wagers laid on how many will remain after they have been divided by four.
A monetary unit of the People's Republic of China worth one hundredth of a yuan.
In Chinese mythology, a system of spirit influences, good and evil, which inhabit the natural features of landscapes; hence, a kind of geomancy for dealing with these influences in determining sites for houses and graves.
Chinese Buddha.
A term used to refer to waiters in restaurants, but sometimes also used in the wider sense of people who work in the same organization, i.e., 'colleagues'.
Fu yung, lit. hibiscus: a Chinese omelet made with bean sprouts, green pepper, and onion and fried in deep fat.
Lit. 'mild ginger from Ko'.
Either of two arallaceous plants, Panax Ginseng (Schinseng), of China, Korea, etc., or P. quinquefolium, of North America, having an aromatic root used in medicine by the Chinese.