胡椒

“Foreign pepper”. The principal time of import to China was estimated to be during the Tang dynasty, and the source―per the miscellany Miscellaneous Morsels from Youyang of the 9^th century CE―was the Magadha Kingdom of India, where it was called 昧履支 (MC mwojH lijX tsye) locally; cf. Sanskrit मरिच (marica, “black pepper”).

胡椒

1. pepper, especially black pepper (both the plant and the spice)
2. Short for 胡椒粉 (hújiāofěn, “pepper powder”).
3. (Eastern Min) nonsense; bullshit
4. (dialectal Mandarin) chili pepper; red pepper

From Chinese 胡椒 (hújiāo).

• (Tokyo) こしょ​ー [kòshóꜜò] (Nakadaka – [2])
• IPA^(key): [ko̞ɕo̞ː]

胡(こ)椒(しょう) or 胡椒(コショウ) • (koshō) ^{←こせう (koseu) or コセウ (koseu)?}

1. pepper

• 白(しろ)胡(こ)椒(しょう) (shirokoshō, “white pepper”)
• 黒(くろ)胡(こ)椒(しょう) (kurokoshō, “black pepper”)
• 粒(つぶ)胡(こ)椒(しょう) (tsubukoshō, “grain pepper”)