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manjū

manjū is the alternative form of manju.

Meaning of manju

Noun

manju (plural manju or manjus)

  1. A traditional Japanese confection; most have an outside made from flour, rice powder, kudzu, and buckwheat, and a filling of red bean paste, usually made from boiled azuki beans and sugar; in Hawaii, Okinawan ones are made with a filling of purple sweet potato, butter, milk, sugar, and salt, but the most common filling is bean paste.
    • Then, replying to Gyowo’s interrogation, he announced that as he had as many manju cakes as he wished for, and as he was no more use in this world, he would not mind dying.1930, Yosoburo Takekoshi, The Economic Aspects of the History of the Civilization of Japan, volume III, New York, N.Y.: The Macmillan Company, page 76

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Forms of manjū

pluralmanjū
pluralmanjūs

Questions about manjū

What is manjū the alternative form of?
Manjū is the alternative form of manju.

Words near manjū in the dictionary

  1. Manjurist
  2. Manjuristics
  3. Manjurists
  4. manjus
  5. Manjuyod
  6. manjū
  7. manjūs
  8. mank
  9. Manka
  10. Mankad
  11. Mankaded

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Adapted from Wiktionary: manjū (page history and authors); manju (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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