azuki bean

azuki bean

English

Alternative forms

• adsuki bean, adzuki bean

Noun

azuki bean (plural azuki beans)

1. An annual vine, Vigna angularis, widely grown throughout East Asia and the Himalayas for its small bean.
   • 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. The bean of this vine.

Synonyms

• red mung bean

Coordinate terms

• soybean

Translations

plant

Esperanto: azukio Finnish: adsukipapu French: haricot azuki m, haricot rouge du Japon m German: Adzukibohne f Japanese: 小豆 (ja) (アズキ, azuki) 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 dau6-2) Wu: 赤豆 (4tsheq deu) Mandarin: 紅豆／红豆 (zh) (hóngdòu) Finnish: adsukipapu French: haricot azuki m, haricot rouge du Japon m German: Adzukibohne f Gujarati: લાલ મગ (lāl mag) Hindi: लाल मूँग (lāl mūṅg) Japanese: 小豆 (ja) (アズキ, azuki) Korean: 팥 (ko) (pat) Malay: kacang merah Marathi: लाल मूग (lāl mūg) Spanish: judía azuki f, judía adzuki f Swedish: adzukiböna (sv) c, azukiböna (sv), adukiböna c Thai: please add this translation if you can Vietnamese: đậu đỏ

Further reading

• adzuki bean on Wikipedia.Wikipedia