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Try a Pair of the “Quick Ones”!Awake!—2000 | February 8
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In Chinese they are called k’uai tzu (Pinyin, kuaizi), which means “quick ones.” The English word “chopsticks” is said to have come from the pidgin term chop, meaning “quick.”
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Try a Pair of the “Quick Ones”!Awake!—2000 | February 8
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a In ancient Chinese both characters for k’uai tzu (quick ones) were written with the bamboo radical, suggesting the material with which chopsticks were initially made.
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