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饅頭

饅頭

See also: 馒头

Chinese

steamed bread head; (noun suffix)
trad. (饅頭) 饅 頭
simp. (馒头) 馒 头
饅頭

Noun

饅頭

  1. Chinese steamed bun (without filling); mantou
  2. (Wu) steamed bun with filling; baozi
  3. (archaic) steamed bun (with or without filling)

See also

Descendants

Sino-Xenic (饅頭):

Others

Japanese

Kanji in this term
饅 頭
まん
Hyōgaiji 		じゅう
Grade: 2
on'yomi

Etymology

From Chinese 饅頭.

Note that in modern Chinese, 饅頭 means an unfilled bun; 包子 ‎(bāozi) is the term for a filled bun.

Pronunciation

Noun

饅頭

饅頭 ‎(hiragana まんじゅう, romaji manjū, historical hiragana まんぢゆう)

  1. manjū, a type of bun typically with bean paste filling

Derived terms

References

  1. ↑ 2006, 大辞林 (Daijirin), Third Edition (in Japanese), Tōkyō: Sanseidō, ISBN 4-385-13905-9
  2. ↑ 1998, NHK日本語発音アクセント辞典 (NHK Japanese Pronunciation Accent Dictionary) (in Japanese), Tōkyō: NHK, ISBN 978-4-14-011112-3

Korean

Hanja in this term
饅 頭

Noun

饅頭 • ‎(mandu) ‎(hangeul 만두)

  1. Hanja form? of 만두, “mandu; Korean dumpling”.

Pronunciation

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