baoziとは 意味・読み方・使い方

語源

Borrowed from the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of Mandarin 包子 (bāozi). Doublet of buuz.

発音

• IPA: /ˈbɑʊ.(d)zə/, /ˈbɑʊ.tsə/, /ˈbɑʊ.zi/

名詞

baozi (plural baozi or baozis)

1. A Chinese steamed stuffed bun.
   • 1987, Sarah Lloyd, Chinese Characters: A Journey through China, London: Collins, →ISBN, page 222:

     We drew into a halt: a few huts, a siding, some heaps of abandoned coal. Ragged children were picking them over but they turned and ran for the sleeper coach windows, holding up chipped and coal-blackened bowls for fragments of yesterday’s bread and baozis, pork-filled dumplings.

   • 1998, “Pleasures and Pastimes”, in Nancy van Itallie et al., editors, Fodor’s China, New York, N.Y.: Fodor’s Travel Publications, Inc., →ISBN, page 7, column 2:

     Some wonderful baozis (steamed white bread) filled with either vegetables, pork, or black bean paste are sold on the streets of most cities and towns scattered throughout the region.

   • 2009, Frank Schätzing, translated by Shaun Whiteside, Jamie Lee Searle, and Samuel Willcocks, “Steelworks”, in Limit, New York, N.Y., London: Jo Fletcher Books, Quercus, published 2013, →ISBN, page 435:

     Jericho turned away and inhaled the smell of fresh wontons and baozis. The stand was busy. Two young men with damply glistening torsos, swathed in the steam that rose from huge pots, swung their ladles, passed bowls of broth and crunchy crab and pork dumplings over the counter.

同意語

• bao, pao, pau

参考

• mantou