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rakugan

rakugan noun: a type of wagashi made by pressing sugar and flour into molds of various different shapes.

rakugan: a type of wagashi made by pressing sugar and flour into molds of various different shapes
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Noun

rakugan (plural rakugan)

  1. A type of wagashi made by pressing sugar and flour into molds of various different shapes.
    • The owner of Baifūan had initially said he wanted to advertise ume jellies, then he changed to mooncake and then rakugan confectionery.2020, Kikuko Tsumura, translated by Polly Barton, “The Bus Advertising Job”, in There’s No Such Thing as an Easy Job, London: Bloomsbury Publishing, →ISBN, page 79
    • He thrust a rakugan into her mouth. […] Yamakakachi picked up one of the rakugan with a trembling hand and fed it to him.2022 June, Shinobumaru, translated by Kevin Ishizaka, The Haunted Bookstore: Gateway to a Parallel Universe, volume 4, [Santa Barbara, Calif.]: Airship, →ISBN, page 39

Forms of rakugan

pluralrakugan

Origin of rakugan

Borrowed from Japanese 落雁(らくがん) (rakugan, literally “falling wild goose”).

Questions about rakugan

What does rakugan mean?
Rakugan means a type of wagashi made by pressing sugar and flour into molds of various different shapes.
What part of speech is rakugan?
Rakugan is a noun.
What is the plural of rakugan?
The plural of rakugan is rakugan.

Words near rakugan in the dictionary

  1. rakshasi
  2. rakshasis
  3. raksi
  4. Raktabija
  5. raku
  6. rakugan
  7. rakugo
  8. rakuware
  9. Rakvere
  10. raky
  11. rakyat

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