肉桂

Chinese

		meat; flesh	Cinnamonum cassia; Guangxi Autonomous Region (abbrev.)
simp. and trad. (肉桂)		肉	桂

Etymology

From Chinese 肉 ("meat") + 桂 ("gui tree"), to distinguish the cassia and cinnamon trees of the laurel family from the 桂花, the osmanthus of the olive family (all having formerly been known as 桂)

Pronunciation

Mandarin
(Pinyin): ròuguì

(Zhuyin): ㄖㄡˋ ㄍㄨㄟˋ
Cantonese (Jyutping): juk⁶ gwai³
Hakka (Sixian, PFS): ngiuk-kui
Min Nan (POJ): jio̍k-kùi / lio̍k-kùi

Mandarin
- (Standard Chinese)⁺
  - Pinyin: ròuguì
  - Zhuyin: ㄖㄡˋ ㄍㄨㄟˋ
  - Gwoyeu Romatzyh: rowguey
  - IPA ^(key): /ʐoʊ̯⁵¹⁻⁵³ ku̯eɪ̯⁵¹/
Cantonese
- (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou)⁺
  - Jyutping: juk⁶ gwai³
  - Yale: yuhk gwai
  - Cantonese Pinyin: juk⁹ gwai³
  - Guangdong Romanization: yug⁶ guei³
  - IPA ^(key): /jʊk̚² kʷɐi̯³³/
Hakka
- (Sixian, incl. Miaoli and Meinong)
  - Pha̍k-fa-sṳ: ngiuk-kui
  - Hakka Romanization System: ngiug` gui
  - Hagfa Pinyim: ngiug⁵ gui⁴
  - IPA: /ɲi̯uk̚² ku̯i⁵⁵/
Min Nan
- (Hokkien: Kaohsiung)
  - Pe̍h-ōe-jī: jio̍k-kùi
  - Tâi-lô: jio̍k-kuì
  - Phofsit Daibuun: jiogkuix
  - IPA (Kaohsiung): /ʑiɔk̚⁴⁻³² kui²¹/
- (Hokkien: Taipei)
  - Pe̍h-ōe-jī: lio̍k-kùi
  - Tâi-lô: lio̍k-kuì
  - Phofsit Daibuun: liogkuix
  - IPA (Taipei): /liɔk̚⁴⁻³² kui¹¹/

Noun

肉桂

cassia (the Chinese cinnamon Cinnamomum cassia)
cassia bark (herb used in traditional Chinese medicine for various ailments)
related members of the genus Cinnamomum, such as true cinnamon (C. verum), Indonesian cinnamon (Cinnamomum burmannii), and Vietnamese cinnamon (Cinnamomum loureiroi)
the bark of such trees

References

肉桂 on the Chinese Wikipedia.Wikipedia ^zh
“Entry #2713”, in 臺灣閩南語常用詞辭典 [Dictionary of Frequently-Used Taiwan Minnan] (in Chinese and Min Nan), Ministry of Education, R.O.C., 2011.

Japanese

Kanji in this term
肉	桂
Grade: 2	Jinmeiyō

Noun

肉桂 (hiragana にっけい, katakana ニッケイ, rōmaji nikkei)

cinnamon

Synonyms

シナモン (shinamon)

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