Food & drink

kimbap

A plain native compound, gim 'laver seaweed' + bap 'cooked rice', first printed in the 1920s–30s; many think the dish grew from Japanese rolled sushi during the occupation, though the name is purely Korean. Japan borrowed it as kinpa; Chinese translates it.

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From Korean to Mandarin Chinese

1925Korean

Hops are evenly spaced; labels show the year each form is first attested.

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