ちゃんぽん

Etymology
Probably borrowed from some variant of. Compare modern 🇨🇬 reading chham-hô, 🇨🇬 chānhuò.

The initial sense was, appearing in texts from the mid-1700s.

The “noodle dish” sense is traced to a food item on offer at the Chinese restaurant founded in Nagasaki in 1899. Compare 🇨🇬 in reference to a mixed-together food item.

Superficially similar, but probably not directly related, to.

Noun

 * 1) a mixture, a mix
 * 2) champon Japanese noodle dish

Descendants

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