garlic chives; Chinese chives
Refers to the plant Allium tuberosum, commonly used in East Asian cuisine. Often seen in dishes like gyoza and stir-fries.
I chopped garlic chives and added them to the gyoza filling.
Adding garlic chives to gyoza makes them more fragrant.
Stir-fried liver with garlic chives is a classic Chinese dish.
I finely chopped the garlic chives and added them to the stir-fry.
I made stir-fried garlic chives for dinner.
Usually written in katakana; the most common practical spelling.
Hiragana spelling, also common.
Kanji form; rarely used in modern writing.
Variant kanji form; very rare.
The origin is uncertain. The Japanese word にら is native, and the kanji 韮 and 韭 are Chinese characters for the same plant.