Mung bean sprout
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| Traditional Chinese | 綠豆芽 | ||||||||
| Simplified Chinese | 绿豆芽 | ||||||||
| Literal meaning | green bean sprout | ||||||||
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| Vietnamese | giá đỗ xanh | ||||||||
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| Hangul | 숙주나물 | ||||||||
| Literal meaning | Sukju namul | ||||||||
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| Kanji | 萌やし | ||||||||
| Kana | もやし | ||||||||
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| Malay | tauge halus | ||||||||
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| Indonesian | taoge | ||||||||
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| Standard Mandarin | |
| Hanyu Pinyin | lǜdòuyá |
| Wade–Giles | lütouya |
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| Revised Romanization | sukjunamul |
| McCune–Reischauer | sukchunamul |
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| Revised Hepburn | moyashi |
Mung bean sprout is a culinary vegetable grown by sprouting small and round mung beans. It can be grown by placing and watering the sprouted mung beans in the shade until the roots grow long. Mung bean sprouts are extensively cultivated and consumed in East Asia.
The Korean name "sukjunamul" is a compound of Sukju and namul, of which the former derived from the name of Sin Sukju(신숙주; 申叔舟), one of the prominent scholars who participated in creating hangul. Unlike his colleagues (later called the six martyred ministers) who had all pledged allegiance to King Danjong, Sin Sukju betrayed them in favour of Danjeong's uncle, Grand Prince Suyang (later King Sejo), who usurped the throne from his nephew and had him killed. People regarded Sin Sukju's move unethical and immoral, they started to gave his name to mung bean sprouts, which happened to go bad and spoil very easily.
In Korea, the word sukjunamul(sometimes abbreviated as sukju) refers to both the mung bean sprouts themselves and the namul(vegetable side dishes) made from mung bean sprouts. Sukjunamul is not as common an ingredient as kongnamul(soybean sprout) in Korean cuisine, but it is used in bibimbap and fillings of mandu(dumplings) and sundae(Korean sausage).
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