辛奇

Chinese

		8th heavenly stem; tired	strange; odd; weird strange; odd; weird; wonderful; odd (Num)
simp. and trad. (辛奇)		辛	奇

Etymology

Phono-semantic matching of Korean 김치 (gimchi) (ultimately from Chinese 沉菜), coined by Korea Agro-Fisheries & Food Trade Center and confirmed by the officials of trademark filing in 2013-11-07. The trademarked name had been filed in November 2013 in Chinese-speaking regions, but National Institute of Korean Language announced to revert the name to 泡菜 in 2014-05-14. South Korea's Ministry of Culture, Sports and Tourism official document released in 2021-07-22 used it as official translation, following an announcement of international standard of 泡菜 that had been made in November 2020 at Sichuan without Korean involvement, but the earliest usage of the term within the Korea's Ministry's web site was traced back to 2016-08-04.

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): xīnqí

  (Zhuyin): ㄒㄧㄣ ㄑㄧˊ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): san¹ kei⁴

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)
    • Hanyu Pinyin: xīnqí
    • Zhuyin: ㄒㄧㄣ ㄑㄧˊ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: sincí
    • Wade–Giles: hsin¹-chʻi²
    • Yale: syīn-chí
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: shinchyi
    • Palladius: синьци (sinʹci)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /ɕin⁵⁵ t͡ɕʰi³⁵/
    • Homophones:

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• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)
    • Jyutping: san¹ kei⁴
    • Yale: sān kèih
    • Cantonese Pinyin: san¹ kei⁴
    • Guangdong Romanization: sen¹ kéi⁴
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /sɐn⁵⁵ kʰei̯²¹/
    • Homophones:

      edit edit 新奇 辛奇

Noun

辛奇

1. (South Korea, formal) kimchi

Usage notes

Promoted by the RoK (South Korea) to avoid confusion with 四川泡菜. However, it is not used by most native Chinese speakers, who still refer to kimchi as 泡菜 (pàocài), with the qualifier 韓國／韩国 (Hánguó) added as a prefix when necessary to distinguish it from other types of preserved vegetables.

Synonyms

• 沉菜, 泡菜 (pàocài), 辣白菜, 韓國泡菜／韩国泡菜 (Hánguó pàocài), 韓式泡菜／韩式泡菜, 朝鮮泡菜／朝鲜泡菜

References

• 韓國泡菜 中港台正名辛奇
• 韓國泡菜正名「辛奇」！中韓泡菜戰爭背後，Kimchi 的國際化之路
• 南韓泡菜中文譯名正式定為“辛奇”
• 秋天的开始，立秋
• 韩绞尽脑汁将泡菜中文名改为“辛奇”走高档路线
• 韩国宣布将“辛奇”改回原译名“泡菜”