mantou

See also: mántou

English

Classic white mantou

Etymology

Borrowed from Mandarin 饅頭／馒头 (mántou). Doublet of mandu, manju, and manti.

Noun

mantou (plural mantou or mantous)

1. Chinese steamed bun (without any filling)
   • 2010 May, Blossom Kan, Michelle Yu, chapter 16, in Young, Restless, and Broke, New York, N.Y.: Thomas Dunne Books, →ISBN, page 249:

     “You sit down and eat mantous and soy milk,” she ordered.

   • 2011, Marc Levy, translated by Sarah Black, “Province of Shaanxi”, in The First Day: A Novel, Toronto, Ont.: McArthur & Company, →ISBN, page 461:

     They brought us tea, rice and mantous – little steamed buns.

     [original: On nous apporta du thé, du riz et des mantous – des petits pains de farine de blé.]

   • 2017, Julia Lin, “Leaving Manchuria”, in Shadows of the Crimson Sun: One Man’s Life in Manchuria, Taiwan, and North America, Toronto, Ont.: Mawenzi House, →ISBN, page 55:

     He wished he had more of the mantous that they’d been given in Shanghai. His younger sister couldn’t stop remarking how delicious the Chinese breads were. The mantous had been a welcome change from the muei (Chinese porridge) on which they had been subsisting for so long.

Translations

Chinese steamed bun

• Chinese:

  Cantonese: 饅頭／馒头 (maan⁴ tau⁴)

  Hokkien: 饅頭／馒头 (zh-min-nan) (bán-thô, bān-thâu, bîn-thâu, bûn-thâu), 麵頭／面头 (zh-min-nan) (mī-thâu)

  Mandarin: 饅頭／馒头 (zh) (mántóu)

• French: mantou (fr)
• Japanese: マントウ (ja) (mantou), 饅頭 (ja) (まんじゅう, manjū) (also means another type of bun)
• Korean: 만두(饅頭) (ko) (mandu)
• Kyrgyz: мантуу (mantuu)
• Manchu: ᠮᡝᠨᡨᡠ (mentu)
• Russian: ма́ньтоу (ru) f or n (mánʹtou), маньто́у (ru) f or n (manʹtóu)
• Thai: หมั่นโถว (th) (màn-tǒow), หม่านโถว (màan-tǒow)
• Uyghur: جىڭموما (jingmoma), تاڭموما (tangmoma), دوبازا (dobaza)
• Vietnamese: màn thầu (vi)
• Zhuang: manzdouz

See also

• baozi

Anagrams

• amount, moutan, outman, tomaun

Romanian

Etymology

Borrowed from French manteau.

Pronunciation

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Noun

mantou n (plural mantouri)

1. coat

Declension

	singular			plural
	indefinite	definite		indefinite	definite
nominative-accusative	mantou	mantoul		mantouri	mantourile
genitive-dative	mantou	mantoului		mantouri	mantourilor
vocative	mantoule			mantourilor