吉備団子 – vocab dash

吉き備び団だん子ご

Meanings

Noun

1. sweet dumpling made with mochi flour and (sometimes) millet flour (famous product of Okayama) (esp. 吉備団子)

2. millet dumplings (esp. 黍団子)

Other spellings

黍きび団だん子ご

Kanji used

吉good luck 備equip 団group 子child

Kanji in other spellings

黍millet

Pitch accent

きびだんご

Composed of

吉き備び

Kibi (former province located in present-day Okayama and parts of Hiroshima, Hyōgo and Kagawa prefectures; later split into Bizen, Bitchu and Bingo provinces)

Noun

団だん子ご

dango; dumpling (usu. sweet); doughboy; ball-shaped object; something round; lump; group; bunch; knot; tight crowd; …

Noun

Examples1

黍きび団だん子ご一ひとつください。

Give me one millet dumpling, please.