パン
パン
hepburn pan
bread
Part of speech · noun
Pattern visualization
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Examples
- 朝はパンを食べます。I eat bread in the morning.
- このパンは美味しいです。This bread is delicious.
Collocations
パン (pan, bread)食パン (shokupan, sliced white bread)パン屋 (pan'ya, bakery)パンを焼く (pan wo yaku, toast / bake bread)メロンパン (melon pan, melon-pattern sweet bun)
Mnemonic
パン pan — loanword from Portuguese pão (bread), entering Japanese in the 16th century via Nanban (southern barbarian) trade. Korean "ppang" shares the exact same Portuguese origin, having reached Korea via Japan. East Asia's bread history compressed into one word. False friend: nothing to do with English "pan" (frying pan). 食パン (shokupan, literally "food bread") is the thick sliced white loaf in every Japanese supermarket. メロンパン looks melon-patterned but rarely tastes of melon — only the lattice top earns the name.
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