筷子

Etymology
The 🇨🇬 words for "chopsticks" were and. is preserved in almost all Min dialects (Taiwanese tī, tū; Fuzhou dê̤ṳ) and some other dialects, especially those in some contact with Min; it is also preserved in loans to other languages, e.g. 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬 and 🇨🇬. Starting from the Ming Dynasty, the change to 筷子 occurred in Mandarin, Wu and some Cantonese dialects. The 15th century book Shuyuan Miscellanies by   mentioned this change:

The bamboo radical was later added to  to form.

Noun



 * 1) chopsticks