胡椒

Chinese
barbarian; recklessly; surname pepper
simp. and trad.
(胡椒)		 胡 椒
variant forms 楜椒

Etymology

“Foreign pepper”. The principal time of import to China was estimated to be during the Tang dynasty, and the source―per the miscellany Miscellaneous Morsels from Youyang of the 9th century CE―was the Magadha Kingdom of India, where it was called 昧履支 (MC muʌiH liɪX t͡ɕiᴇ) locally; cf. Sanskrit मरिच (marica, “black pepper”).

Pronunciation
Note: hou5 ziê1 - Chaozhou.

Noun

胡椒

  1. pepper, especially black pepper (both the plant and the spice)
  2. Short for 胡椒粉 (hújiāofěn, “pepper powder”).
  3. (Min Dong) nonsense; bullshit

Derived terms

Japanese
Kanji in this term
胡 椒
こ
Jinmeiyō		 しょう
Hyōgaiji
on’yomi

Etymology

From Chinese 胡椒

Pronunciation

Noun

胡椒 (hiragana こしょう, katakana コショウ, rōmaji koshō, historical hiragana こせう, historical katakana コセウ)

  1. pepper

See also
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