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mantou

Syllables: man·tou

mantou noun: chinese steamed bun (without any filling).

mantou: chinese steamed bun (without any filling)
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Noun

mantou (plural mantou or mantous)

  1. Chinese steamed bun (without any filling)
    • “You sit down and eat mantous and soy milk,” she ordered.2010 May, Blossom Kan, Michelle Yu, chapter 16, in Young, Restless, and Broke, New York, N.Y.: Thomas Dunne Books, →ISBN, page 249
    • On nous apporta du thé, du riz et des mantous – des petits pains de farine de blé.2011, Marc Levy, translated by Sarah Black, “Province of Shaanxi”, in The First Day: A Novel, Toronto, Ont.: McArthur & Company, →ISBN, page 461

mantou meaning in Indonesian, Thai and Vietnamese

mantou in Indonesian

Chinese steamed bun
mantao, roti mantau

mantou in Thai

Chinese steamed bun
หมั่นโถว màn-tǒow, หม่านโถว màan-tǒow

mantou in Vietnamese

Chinese steamed bun
màn thầu

Forms of mantou

pluralmantou
pluralmantous

Origin of mantou

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

Questions about mantou

What does mantou mean?
Mantou means chinese steamed bun (without any filling).
What is mantou in Indonesian?
Mantou in Indonesian is mantao, roti mantau. See Mantou meaning in Indonesian.
What part of speech is mantou?
Mantou is a noun.
What is the plural of mantou?
The plural of mantou is mantou.

Words near mantou in the dictionary

  1. mantophasmatids
  2. mantophasmid
  3. mantophasmids
  4. Mantorville
  5. mantos
  6. mantou
  7. mantourage
  8. mantourages
  9. mantous
  10. Mantoux test
  11. Mantoux tests

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