甜不辣

Chinese

		sweet	not; no	hot (spicy); pungent
trad. (甜不辣)		甜	不	辣
simp. ^#(甜不辣)		甜	不	辣
Literally: “sweet, not spicy”.

Etymology

Phono-semantic matching from Japanese 天(てん)麩(ぷ)羅(ら) (tenpura).

Pronunciation

Mandarin
(Pinyin): tiánbùlà

(Zhuyin): ㄊㄧㄢˊ ㄅㄨˋ ㄌㄚˋ
Cantonese (Jyutping): tim⁴ bat¹ laat⁶
Southern Min (Hokkien, POJ): thiăn-pú-lah

Mandarin
- (Standard Chinese)⁺
  - Hanyu Pinyin: tiánbùlà [Phonetic: tiánbúlà]
  - Zhuyin: ㄊㄧㄢˊ ㄅㄨˋ ㄌㄚˋ
  - Tongyong Pinyin: tiánbùlà
  - Wade–Giles: tʻien²-pu⁴-la⁴
  - Yale: tyán-bù-là
  - Gwoyeu Romatzyh: tyanbulah
  - Palladius: тяньбула (tjanʹbula)
  - Sinological IPA ^(key): /tʰi̯ɛn³⁵ pu⁵¹⁻³⁵ lä⁵¹/
Cantonese
- (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)⁺
  - Jyutping: tim⁴ bat¹ laat⁶
  - Yale: tìhm bāt laaht
  - Cantonese Pinyin: tim⁴ bat⁷ laat⁹
  - Guangdong Romanization: tim⁴ bed¹ lad⁶
  - Sinological IPA ^(key): /tʰiːm²¹ pɐt̚⁵ laːt̚²/
Southern Min
- (Hokkien: General Taiwanese)
  - Pe̍h-ōe-jī: thiăn-pú-lah
  - Tâi-lô: thia̋n-pú-lah
  - IPA (Taipei): /tʰiɛn³⁵ pu⁵³⁻⁴⁴ laʔ³²/
  - IPA (Kaohsiung): /tʰiɛn³⁵ pu⁴¹⁻⁴⁴ laʔ³²/

Note: thiăn-pú-lah - Directly from Japanese 天(てん)麩(ぷ)羅(ら) (tenpura).

Noun

甜不辣

tempura
(Taiwan) fried fishcake (similar to oden)

Synonyms

天婦羅／天妇罗 (tiānfùluó)
天麩羅／天麸罗 (tiānfūluó)
天富羅／天富罗 (tiānfùluó)
(oden): 黑輪／黑轮 (hēilún)