饅頭

See also: 馒头

Chinese

head; (noun suffix)
trad. (饅頭)
simp. (馒头)
alternative forms 曼頭曼头
蠻頭蛮头

Etymology

  • Pronunciation 1


    Note: maan4 tau4 - rare.

    Rime
    Character
    Reading # 1/1 1/1
    Initial () (4) (7)
    Final () (62) (137)
    Tone (調) Level (Ø) Level (Ø)
    Openness (開合) Closed Open
    Division () I I
    Fanqie
    Baxter man duw
    Reconstructions
    Zhengzhang
    Shangfang
    /muɑn/ /dəu/
    Pan
    Wuyun
    /mʷɑn/ /dəu/
    Shao
    Rongfen
    /muɑn/ /dəu/
    Edwin
    Pulleyblank
    /mwan/ /dəw/
    Li
    Rong
    /muɑn/ /du/
    Wang
    Li
    /muɑn/ /dəu/
    Bernhard
    Karlgren
    /muɑn/ /dʱə̯u/
    Expected
    Mandarin
    Reflex
    mán tóu
    Expected
    Cantonese
    Reflex
    mun4 tau4

    Noun

    饅頭

    1. Chinese steamed bun (without filling); mantou
    2. (Wu) steamed bun with filling; baozi
      小籠饅頭小笼馒头 [Shanghainese]  ―  5shiau-lon 6moe-deu [Wugniu]  ―  xiaolongbao
      生煎饅頭生煎馒头 [Shanghainese]  ―  1san-ci1 6moe-deu [Wugniu]  ―  shengjianbao
    3. (archaic) steamed bun (with or without filling)
      Synonyms: 蒸餅 / 蒸饼 (zhēngbǐng), 炊餅 / 炊饼 (chuībǐng)
    4. (figurative, slang) breast; tits
    Synonyms
    Derived terms
    Descendants
    Sino-Xenic (饅頭):
    • Japanese: (まん)(じゅう) (manjū, a type of bun typically with bean paste filling) (see there for further descendants)
    • Korean: 만두(饅頭) (mandu, Korean dumpling) (see there for further descendants)

    Others:

    See also

    Pronunciation 2


    Noun

    饅頭

    1. (Hokkien) alternative form of 麵頭 / 面头 (miàntóu, mantou used during the hundredth day commemoration of one's parent's death)

    References

    • 李如龙 [Li, Ru-long]; 刘福铸 [Liu, Fu-zhu]; 吴华英 [Wu, Hua-ying]; 黄国城 [Huang, Guo-cheng] (2019), “1347 馒头(没馅的)”, in 莆仙方言调查报告 [Investigation Report on Puxian Dialect] (overall work in Mandarin and Puxian Min), Xiamen University Press, →ISBN, page 423.

    Japanese

    Kanji in this term
    まん
    Hyōgai
    じゅう
    Grade: 2
    tōon

    Etymology

    From Chinese 饅頭 / 馒头.

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

    Pronunciation

    Noun

    (まん)(じゅう) • (manjūまんぢゆう (mandyuu)?

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

    Derived terms

    Descendants

    References

    1. ^ Matsumura, Akira, editor (2006), 大辞林 [Daijirin] (in Japanese), Third edition, Tokyo: Sanseidō, →ISBN
    2. ^ NHK Broadcasting Culture Research Institute, editor (1998), NHK日本語発音アクセント辞典 [NHK Japanese Pronunciation Accent Dictionary] (in Japanese), Tokyo: NHK Publishing, Inc., →ISBN

    Korean

    Hanja in this term

    Noun

    饅頭 • (mandu) (hangeul 만두)

    1. hanja form? of 만두 (mandu; Korean dumpling)