甜不辣

Chinese

		sweet	not; no	hot (spicy); pungent
simp. and trad. (甜不辣)		甜	不	辣
Literally: “sweet, not spicy”.

Etymology

Phono-semantic matching of Japanese 天(てん)麩(ぷ)羅(ら) (tenpura).

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): tiánbùlà

  (Zhuyin): ㄊㄧㄢˊ ㄅㄨˋ ㄌㄚˋ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): tim⁴ bat¹ laat⁶

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Pinyin: tiánbùlà [Phonetic: tiánbúlà]
    • Zhuyin: ㄊㄧㄢˊ ㄅㄨˋ ㄌㄚˋ
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: tyanbulah
    • Tongyong Pinyin: tiánbùlà
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /tʰjɛn³⁵ pu⁵¹⁻³⁵ lä⁵¹/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou)⁺
    • Jyutping: tim⁴ bat¹ laat⁶
    • Yale: tìhm bāt laaht
    • Cantonese Pinyin: tim⁴ bat⁷ laat⁹
    • Guangdong Romanization: tim⁴ bed¹ lad⁶
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /tʰiːm²¹ pɐt̚⁵ läːt̚²/

Noun

甜不辣

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

Synonyms

• 天婦羅／天妇罗 (tiānfùluó)
• 天麩羅／天麸罗 (tiānfūluó)
• 天富羅／天富罗 (tiānfùluó)
• (oden): 黑輪／黑轮 (hēilún)