甜不辣

Chinese

sweet not; no hot (spicy); pungent
trad. (甜不辣)
simp. #(甜不辣)
Literally: “sweet, not spicy”.

Etymology

Phono-semantic matching of Japanese (てん)()() (tenpura).

Pronunciation


Noun

甜不辣

  1. tempura (though Taiwanese tempura is more a variant of oden)

Synonyms

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