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牛タン (ぎゅうタン) Japanese meaning | Kotomora

牛ぎゅうタン

ぎゅ

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タ

ン

Meanings

1

noun

beef tongue; ox tongue

food / cooking

Refers specifically to beef tongue as a food ingredient, commonly used in yakiniku, stews, or grilled dishes.

焼やき肉にく屋やで牛ぎゅうタンを注ちゅう文もんした。
I ordered beef tongue at the yakiniku restaurant.
牛ぎゅうタンの煮に込こみは柔やわらかくて美味おいしい。
Stewed beef tongue is tender and delicious.

Written forms

牛ぎゅうタンUsage94%
Standard mixed kanji-katakana spelling for beef tongue as a food item.
牛舌ぎゅうたんUsage6%
search-only kanji form
Search-only kanji form; the reading ぎゅうタン is not standard for this spelling, which would normally be read ぎゅうぜつ or うしした.
牛ぎゅうたん
Hiragana variant of the katakana part; less common but seen in some menus or casual writing.

Kanji

牛

cow

舌tongue, reed, clapper

Similar words

タン
タン alone can mean 'tongue' (from English), but 牛タン specifically means beef tongue as food.
舌した
舌 is the general word for 'tongue' (body part), while 牛タン is the culinary term for beef tongue.

Etymology

Compound of 牛 (gyū, 'cow/beef') and タン (tan, from English 'tongue'), used exclusively for the food item.