甜不辣

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Chinese

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

Etymology

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

Pronunciation


Noun

(deprecated template usage) 甜不辣

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

Synonyms

(deprecated template usage)