azuki bean

English

Alternative forms

• adsuki bean, aduki bean, adzuki bean

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /əˈzu(ː)ki ˈbi(ː)n/

• Audio (Southern England):

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Noun

azuki bean (plural azuki beans)

1. An annual vine (Vigna angularis), widely grown throughout East Asia and the Himalayas for its small bean.

   Synonym: red mung bean

   Coordinate term: soybean

   • 2005 March 16, chapter 11, in Ram J. Singh, Prem P. Jauhar, editors, Genetic Resources, Chromosome Engineering, and Crop Improvement: Grain Legumes, CRC Press, →ISBN:

     The Chinese characters for azuki bean [Vigna angularis (Willd.) Ohwi & Ohashi], 小豆, means^[sic] “small bean,” while the kanji characters for soybean, 大豆, mean “big bean.” These characters also reflect the relative importance of these two crops in East Asia, where they are the main legumes in people's diets.

2. A bean of this vine.

Translations

plant

• Esperanto: azukio
• Finnish: adsukipapu (fi)
• French: haricot azuki m, haricot rouge du Japon (fr) m
• German: Adzukibohne f
• Japanese: 小豆 (ja) (azuki)
• Polish: fasola adzuki f
• Spanish: judía azuki f, judía adzuki f
• Swedish: adzukiböna (sv) c
• Vietnamese: đậu đỏ

bean

• Bengali: লাল মুগ (lal mug)
• Chinese:

  Cantonese: 紅豆 / 红豆 (hung⁴ dau^6-2)

  Mandarin: 紅豆 / 红豆 (zh) (hóngdòu)

  Wu: 赤豆

• Esperanto: azukio
• Finnish: adsukipapu (fi)
• French: haricot azuki m, haricot rouge du Japon (fr) m
• German: Adzukibohne f
• Gujarati: લાલ મગ (lāl mag)
• Hindi: लाल मूँग (lāl mūṅg)
• Japanese: 小豆 (ja) (azuki)
• Korean: 팥 (ko) (pat)
• Malay: kacang merah
• Marathi: लाल मूग (lāl mūg)
• Polish: fasola adzuki f
• Spanish: judía azuki f, judía adzuki f
• Swedish: adzukiböna (sv) c, azukiböna (sv), adukiböna c
• Thai: ถั่วอาซูกิ
• Vietnamese: đậu đỏ

Further reading

• adzuki bean on Wikipedia.Wikipedia