Etymology
| Loquat | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Chinese name | |||
| Traditional Chinese | 蘆橘 | ||
| Simplified Chinese | 蘆橘 | ||
|
|
|||
|
|||
| Modern Chinese name | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Chinese | 枇杷 | ||
|
|
|||
|
|||
| Japanese name | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Kanji | 枇杷 | ||
| Kana | ビワ | ||
|
|
|||
|
The name loquat derives from Cantonese lou4 gwat1 (Chinese: 盧橘; pinyin: lújú; lit. 'black orange'). The phrase 'black orange' originally referred to unripened kumquats, which are dark green in color, but the name was mistakenly applied to the loquat by the ancient Chinese poet Su Shi when he was residing in southern China, and the mistake was widely taken up by the Cantonese region thereafter。
。。。。。。 原來是蘇軾被流放到南方時犯的錯誤，把枇杷誤認為 黑色的 未成熟的金橘。。。。。。。
