きぬごしどうふ

Japanese

Alternative spellings
絹漉し豆腐
絹ごし豆腐

Etymology

From 絹漉(きぬご) (kinugoshi) + 豆腐(とうふ) (tōfu). The tōfu changes to dōfu as an instance of rendaku (連濁).

Pronunciation

  • (Tokyo) ぬごしどーふ [kìnúgóshídóꜜòfù] (Nakadaka – [5])[1]
  • IPA(key): [kʲinɯ̟ᵝɡo̞ɕido̞ːɸɯ̟ᵝ]

Noun

きぬごしどうふ • (kinugoshi-dōfu) きぬごしどうふ (kinugosi-doufu)?

  1. silken tofu

References

  1. Matsumura, Akira, editor (2006), 大辞林 [Daijirin] (in Japanese), Third edition, Tōkyō: Sanseidō, →ISBN
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