yokan
yokan noun: a thick jellied dessert made of red bean paste, agar, and sugar, usually sold in block form and eaten in slices.
Noun
yokan (countable and uncountable, plural yokan)
- A thick jellied dessert made of red bean paste, agar, and sugar, usually sold in block form and eaten in slices.
- Looking into the cake bowl which she had brought I saw that it contained some green ‘yokan’ made from bean jelly. I think that if^([sic – meaning of]) all cakes, yokan are my favourite. […] These yokan were particularly pleasant to look at, for their green-tinged lustre made them look as though...1965, Natsume Soseki, translated by Alan Turney, chapter 4, in The Three Cornered World (UNESCO Collection of Representative Works, Japanese Series), Chicago, Ill.: Henry Regnery Company, published...
- There are hundreds of distinct variations within the main types of wagashi: namagashi, monaka, yokan, manju, and higashi. […] Yokan gets its firm texture from kanten, a seaweed-derived gelatin, and is likely to have fruit and azuki within.2007 winter, Elisa Herr, “A Sweet Tradition”, in Japan Info, volume 9, New York, N.Y.: Japan Information Center, Consolate General of Japan, →OCLC, page 8, columns 1–2
Examples of yokan in a sentence
- Looking into the cake bowl which she had brought I saw that it contained some green ‘yokan’ made from bean jelly.1965, Natsume Soseki, translated by Alan Turney, chapter 4, in The Three Cornered World (UNESCO Collection of Representative Works...
- Bill Yosses, the pastry chef, is now making yokan “pops” ($5) in several flavors at his Palais restaurant on the Upper East Side; Dylan Lauren also sells them at Dylan’s Candy Bar near Union Square.2019 November 4, Florence Fabricant, “A Japanese Sweet Tradition a Thousand Years in the Making”, in The New York Times, New York, N.Y....
Forms of yokan
| plural | yokan |
|---|---|
| alternative form | yōkan |
| alternative form | youkan |
Origin of yokan
From Japanese 羊羹(ようかん) (yōkan).
Questions about yokan
- What does yokan mean?
- Yokan means a thick jellied dessert made of red bean paste, agar, and sugar, usually sold in block form and eaten in slices.
- How do you use yokan in a sentence?
- Looking into the cake bowl which she had brought I saw that it contained some green ‘yokan’ made from bean jelly.
- What part of speech is yokan?
- Yokan is a noun.
- What is the plural of yokan?
- The plural of yokan is yokan.
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