five-spice powder

English

Etymology

Calque from Chinese 五香粉 (wǔxiāngfěn).

Noun

five-spice powder (usually uncountable, plural five-spice powders)

1. A ground mixture of five varieties of spice used in Chinese, East Asian and Southeast Asian cuisine. One common mixture contains star anise, cloves, Chinese cinnamon, Sichuan pepper, and fennel seeds.

Translations

ground mixture

• Burmese: တရုတ်မဆလာ (ta.rutma.hca.la)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 五香粉 (zh) (wǔxiāngfěn)

• Danish: please add this translation if you can
• Finnish: viismauste
• Greek: μείγμα πέντε μπαχαρικών n (meígma pénte bacharikón)
• Japanese: 五香粉 (gokōfun), 五香粉 (ūshanfen), 五香粉 (ūshanfun)
• Korean: 오향분 (ohyangbun)
• Portuguese: please add this translation if you can
• Russian: please add this translation if you can
• Vietnamese: bột ngũ vị hương, ngũ vị hương

Further reading

• five-spice powder on Wikipedia.Wikipedia