Chinese

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

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

Pronunciation

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Noun

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甜不辣

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

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