Nature and weatherBamboo in Thai
“Bamboo” in Thai is ไผ่pài; you'll also hear ไม้ไผ่máai-pài (the wood).
ไผ่ pài
bamboo noun
- pài low
- Low: flat and lower than your normal voice, dropping a little at the end.
ไม้ไผ่ máai-pài
bamboo (the wood) noun
- máai high
- pài low
- High: start high and go a little higher, a bit tense; don’t let it fall.
- Low: flat and lower than your normal voice, dropping a little at the end.
How to use it
ไผ่pài is the plant, and ไม้ไผ่máai-pài, "bamboo wood", the material of rafts, bridges, furniture and countless street-food skewers. Young bamboo shoots, หน่อไม้nàw-máai, are a vegetable, and sticky rice baked inside a bamboo tube is ข้าวหลามkâao lǎam.
Other spellings you'll see
There's no single official way to write Thai in English letters. We mark the tone of every syllable; online you'll also find:
- phai
- mai phai
- maai phai
- mai pai
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