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| For pronunciation and definitions of こんにゃく – see the following entry.
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| 【蒟蒻】
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- [noun] [from 918] 蒟蒻, 菎蒻: konjac (both the plant and the food made from the plant)
- [noun] [from 1775] 蒟蒻: (slang) Short for 蒟蒻島 (Konnyaku-jima): obsolete name for the 新川 (Shingawa) area in modern-day 中央区 (Chūō-ku, “Central Ward”) in Tokyo
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| (This term, こんにゃく (konnyaku), is the hiragana spelling of the above term.)
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