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Bok choy

2 stages from Cantonese to English.

Today it means a leafy Chinese cabbage with pale stems, used widely in East Asian cooking
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Stage 1 of 2
baak coi
Cantonese · medieval
"white vegetable"
literally white vegetable, describing the pale-stemmed leafy green
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Stage 2 of 2
bok choy
English · 1800s
"a leafy Chinese cabbage"
adopted through Cantonese-speaking immigrant communities
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