うどん
Appearance
Japanese
[edit]Alternative spelling |
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饂飩 (now rare) |
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Alternative forms
[edit]- (historical) うんどん (undon)
Etymology
[edit]Uncertain. Perhaps from Chinese 餛飩 / 馄饨, or a blend of this term and 温 (on, “warm”). Compare Japanese 餛飩.
Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
[edit]- udon (a type of Japanese wheat noodle)
Descendants
[edit]- → Cebuano: udong
- → Tagalog: udong
- → Chinese: 烏冬 / 乌冬 (wūdōng)
- → English: udon, odong
- → French: udon
- → Indonesian: udon
- → Italian: udon
- → Korean: 우동 (udong)
- → Tagalog: udon
- → Turkish: udon
References
[edit]- ^ 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