味精

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Chinese

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taste
energy; perfect; excellent
energy; perfect; excellent; refined; very; proficient
 
trad. (味精)
simp. #(味精)

Etymology

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Wasei kango (和製漢語), orthographically borrowed from Japanese ()(せい) (misei), coined by Kikunae Ikeda circa 1908. In Japan, it was renamed to (あじ)(もと) (ajinomoto) ( > 味之素 (wèizhīsù) ) for commercial reasons.

Pronunciation

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Noun

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味精

  1. monosodium glutamate; MSG

Synonyms

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Descendants

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Sino-Xenic (味精):
  • Vietnamese: vị tinh (味精)

Others:

Vietnamese

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chữ Hán Nôm in this term

Noun

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味精

  1. (Central Vietnam) chữ Hán form of vị tinh (monosodium glutamate).