甜不辣

Chinese

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

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): tiánbùlà

  (Zhuyin): ㄊㄧㄢˊ ㄅㄨˋ ㄌㄚˋ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): tim⁴ bat¹ laat⁶
• Southern Min (Hokkien, POJ): thiăn-pú-lah

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: tiánbùlà [Phonetic: tiánbúlà]
    • Zhuyin: ㄊㄧㄢˊ ㄅㄨˋ ㄌㄚˋ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: tiánbùlà
    • Wade–Giles: tʻien²-pu⁴-la⁴
    • Yale: tyán-bù-là
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: tyanbulah
    • Palladius: тяньбула (tjanʹbula)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /tʰi̯ɛn³⁵ pu⁵¹⁻³⁵ lä⁵¹/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)⁺
    • Jyutping: tim⁴ bat¹ laat⁶
    • Yale: tìhm bāt laaht
    • Cantonese Pinyin: tim⁴ bat⁷ laat⁹
    • Guangdong Romanization: tim⁴ bed¹ lad⁶
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /tʰiːm²¹ pɐt̚⁵ laːt̚²/
• Southern Min
  • (Hokkien: General Taiwanese)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: thiăn-pú-lah
    • Tâi-lô: thia̋n-pú-lah
    • IPA (Taipei): /tʰiɛn³⁵ pu⁵³⁻⁴⁴ laʔ³²/
    • IPA (Kaohsiung): /tʰiɛn³⁵ pu⁴¹⁻⁴⁴ laʔ³²/

Note: thiăn-pú-lah - Directly from Japanese 天(てん)麩(ぷ)羅(ら) (tenpura).

Noun

甜不辣

1. tempura
2. (Taiwan) fried fishcake (similar to 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)