Loan Word
Chinese Characters
*Choy sum 榮心
Confucius 孔夫子
Congou
工夫
Cumshaw 感您
*Chung Young TC M
*Dimsum
心
*Ding how
*Fanqui,
真好
番鬼
fankwei
Fan-tan
Fen
Feng shui, X X fung shui
Fo
佛
*Foki
伙
Foo yong, fu yung
Galingale as THE
Ginseng A
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 caten 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 hourses and graves.
Chinese Buddha.
in
A term used to
to refer to waiters restaurants, but sometimes also used in the wider sense of people who work in the same organization, ie, '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.
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Loan Word
Chinese Characters
*Choy sum 榮心
Confucius 孔夫子
Congou
工夫
Cumshaw 感您
*Chung Young TC M
*Dimsum
心
*Ding how
*Fanqui,
真好
番鬼
fankwei
Fan-tan
* *
Fen
Feng shui, X X fung shui
Fo
佛
*Foki
伙
Foo yong, fu yung
* *
Galingale as THE
Ginseng A
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 caten 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 hourses and graves.
Chinese Buddha.
in
A term used to
to refer to waiters restaurants, but sometimes also used in the wider sense of people who work in the same organization, ie, '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.
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