kimchiとは 意味・読み方・使い方

別の表記

• kimchee, kim chee, gimchee, gimchi

語源

Borrowed from Korean 김치 (gimchi), ultimately composed within Korea of Chinese-derived morphemes 沉 (MC drim, “submerged, soaked”) and 菜 (MC tshojH, “vegetable”), i.e. "fermented vegetable". Doublet of kimuchi.

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名詞

kimchi (usually uncountable, plural kimchis)

1. A Korean dish made of vegetables, such as cabbage or radishes, that are salted, seasoned, and stored in sealed containers to undergo lactic acid fermentation.
   • 2023 June 29, Violet Kim, “Korean food: 39 dishes we can’t live without”, in CNN‎:

     Despite the stew’s debt to kimchi, you know it has come into its own when it’s served with kimchi as a side dish.

   • 2019 January 26, Jo Storm, Snowhook‎, Dundurn, →ISBN:

     "Yeah." He gestured to the kimchi. "Well, get it in ya, then."
     "It's better hot." she said.

2. (countable, slang, ethnic slur, derogatory) A Korean person.
   • 1994, Richard Marcinko, Rogue Warrior II: Red Cell, Pocket Books, page 238:

     How did I know the kimchis were trying to smuggle the crate out of Japan?

   • 2007, Pamela Goyan Kittler, Kathryn Sucher, Food and Culture, Cengage Learning, page 5:

     In the United States, Germans are sometimes called "krauts" ... Koreans "kimchis," and poor white Southerners "crackers"...

   • 2011, Gerald M. Weinberg, Freshman Murders, Weinberg & Weinberg:

     ... he doesn't know the difference between Ping-Pongs and Kimchis.

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