"anpan" meaning in English

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Noun

Forms: anpan [plural], anpans [plural]
Etymology: From Japanese あんパン (anpan), from あん (an, “bean jam”) + パン (pan, “bread, pastry”). Etymology templates: {{bor|en|ja|あんパン|tr=anpan}} Japanese あんパン (anpan) Head templates: {{en-noun|~|anpan|+}} anpan (countable and uncountable, plural anpan or anpans)
  1. A Japanese sweet roll most commonly filled with red bean paste. Tags: countable, uncountable Categories (topical): Cakes and pastries
    Sense id: en-anpan-en-noun-86F5XtDL Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header, Pages with 2 entries, Pages with entries

Inflected forms

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          "ref": "2005, Satomi Ikezawa, translated by William Flanagan, Othello, volume 3, New York, N.Y.: Del Rey Books, →ISBN:",
          "text": "For those familiar with the anime “Anpanman,” the title character is so named because his head is the shape of an anpan bun.",
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          "ref": "2016, Machiko Kusahara, “Proto-Media Art: Revisiting Japanese Postwar Avant-garde Art”, in Christiane Paul, editor, A Companion to Digital Art, Wiley-Blackwell, →ISBN, part I (Histories of Digital Art), page 116:",
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          "ref": "2019, Clay Boutwell, Yumi Boutwell, Japanese Reading for JLPT N5, Kotoba Inc, →ISBN:",
          "text": "He bought two anpans.",
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          "ref": "2020, Six Pommes, How to Draw Almost Everything: An Illustrated Sourcebook, volume 2, Quarry Books, The Quarto Group, →ISBN, page 125:",
          "text": "ANPAN (BREAD WITH BEAN PASTE) / Anpan is often sold wrapped in plastic. Draw a slice of anpan to show the red bean paste filling.",
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          "ref": "2020, Shauna Holyoak, Kazu Jones and the Comic Book Criminal, Little, Brown and Company, →ISBN:",
          "text": "Anpan was a sweet Japanese bun filled with anko, a yummy red-bean paste. Every time Mom took me to Tokyo Premium Bakery, I ordered one anpan to eat there, and one melon pan for later. / “Are you kidding?” I said, hope floating in my chest like a balloon. “Anpan is delicious!” […] My tongue tickled at the idea of some fresh, warm anpan, but I knew I had to keep working on my mission. “Mom loves anpan,” I said, and it wasn’t even a lie. “Can I take her some, too?”",
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          "text": "Although the taste of anpan is nothing like peanut butter, the two styles are sometimes compared to the smooth-vs.-chunky debate.",
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          "ref": "2020, Hikaru Nakamura, translated by Alethea Nibley and Athena Nibley, Saint Young Men, volume 5, Kodansha Comics, →ISBN:",
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          "ref": "2021, D. B. Goodin, Echoes of Silence (Cyber Hunter Origins; 2), →ISBN:",
          "text": "A young Misato brought her an anpan, her favorite pastry.",
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          "ref": "2021, Nikki Asada, translated by Emily Yamada, The Springtime of My Life Began with You, volume 4, Kodansha, →ISBN:",
          "text": "FAVORITE FOOD / ANPAN / *ANPAN ARE SWEET BEAN BUNS.",
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          "ref": "2022, EDA, translated by Gwendolyn Warner, Cooking with Wild Game, volume 19, J-Novel Club, →ISBN:",
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          "text": "On my end, pastry has always been synonymous with pleasure: Once, a boyfriend in Austin insisted that his sister’s pan dulce could cure any heartache, and for a few bites of deliciousness, this was pretty much true. I’ve been healed by anpan eaten from Shimokitazawa’s just-opened bakeries, after nights spent at gay bars, because these were the first blessings we ran into.",
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          "text": "On my end, pastry has always been synonymous with pleasure: Once, a boyfriend in Austin insisted that his sister’s pan dulce could cure any heartache, and for a few bites of deliciousness, this was pretty much true. I’ve been healed by anpan eaten from Shimokitazawa’s just-opened bakeries, after nights spent at gay bars, because these were the first blessings we ran into.",
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